It Is NOT Your Money!

Could be screamed at every person in Congress, the President, etc.  But this time I am screaming it at Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen and the Fakistinian people.

The United States Congress reportedly blocked the transfer of $200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority in what a Palestinian official called "collective punishment" for the PA's bid for membership in the United Nations, UK daily The Independent reported on Saturday.

The unconfirmed report says that an unpublicized block on the transfer of funds, less than one third of the aid sent to the PA annually, has been in place since August.

The United States is opposed to the Palestinian bid to seek full UN membership and has vowed to veto such a move in the Security Council.

PA spokesman Ghassan Khatib told The Independent that cutting aid to the PA is "unjustified. These are mainly humanitarian and development projects - it is another kind of collective punishment which is going to harm the needs of the public without making any positive contribution."

In mid September, the US House Foreign Affairs Committee began debating cutting off US aid to the Palestinian Authority for breaking ranks with the American-brokered peace process. In her opening statement, Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), credited former President George H.W. Bush in 1989 with “stop[ping] dead in its tracks” attempts by former Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat to seek recognition from various UN agencies after statehood was declared a year before. Ros-Lehtinen called upon President Obama to do the same in 2011 “to stop Abu Mazen’s [PA President Abbas] dangerous unilateral scheme” by suspending funds to any UN agency “that granted membership or any upgraded status to the PA.”

In July, a key Congressional committee considered a foreign aid bill that threatened funding to the Palestinian Authority and Lebanon, and would codify in law the George W. Bush letter to Ariel Sharon.

The bill, drawn up by Ros-Lehtinen, would also end by 2014 the president’s ability to waive the law that requires him to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as well as mandate that official American documents list Jerusalem as part of Israel. The State Department would also have to report on its diplomatic activities on behalf of Israel to end efforts at isolating it.

Furthermore, it conditions aid to the PA on its recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and ending all anti-Israel incitement in state-owned media, among other measures; while aid to Lebanon includes a stipulation that no member of Hezbollah serve in the government.

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Americans are the most generous people on the planet Earth.  When a disaster strikes it is the generosity of the average American that sends millions of dollars to help those affected.  The US government has given trillions of dollars to various nations to help them grow, prosper and expand into viable democracies.

But the PA forgets one little fact:

It is not the funds of the PA.  This is money that belongs to the citizens of the United States.  If those citizens (through their representatives) decide that they do not wish to fund terrorists, then they will withhold the funds.

I suggest that the PA ask Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Libya, etc...for the funds they need.

In The USA

Hat Tip to Patriot's Corner

In the USA - The Homeless go without eating.

In the USA - The Elderly go without needed medicines.

In the USA - The Mentally ill go without treatment.

In the USA - Our Troops go without proper equipment.

In the USA - Our Veterans go without benefits they were promised.

Yet we donate billions to other countries before helping our own first.
Have the guts to re-post this. 1% will re-post, 99% won't have the guts to re-post this.

In the USA........

Yes, and we all know the above is true, painfully so. While the United States is still the BEST and foremost country in which one can reside in, we have our problems and faults. NO country is perfect nor does any country have a spotless, pure Lilly white past when one delves into our history or the history of any other country.

Most of our problems that we are now facing could be solved or the burdens greatly eased by cutting off any and all aid to those countries that take and take from us, and then stab us in the back every way they can. The amount of aid we dump into the muslim world is appalling, especially when we look at how obama, the first muslim potus has reached out to the perverted, backward and violent muslim world. pakistan and afghanistan immediately come to mind and these two are just the tip of the iceberg and are a perfect example.

There are those who will say yes, the above is true and Israel should be included in this group and be cut off from all aid from the United States. One major difference; Israel is our ally(no thanks to obama and his islamist administration) and would stand next to us in a time of war and conflict. Many of our so called European allies cannot hold a candle to Israel when compared to Israel in terms of being a true ally even after all the mullah obamaham has done to Israel.

It is long past time to take care of our own, and those who are not our true allies need to be kicked to the curb.

Thanks to Paul English Whu for the re-post on the opening portion of this feed.

OK Patriot I've taken up your challenge and I send it out to the world.  I dare you to repost this.