Corporate welfare needs to stop

[*michaelsean*]

(06-17-2015, 01:26 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Go back and look at the OP.  The United States just gave Vietnam $18 million of U S taxpayer money to purchase military weapons from a private U S company.

But maybe this quote will make the game much clearer to you


In terms of total money received, Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of military assistance from the United States between 2002 and 2011 Israel received $30 billion of US foreign aid, of which nearly 75% was used to purchase U.S. defense equipment from American companies.

 In 2007, the United States increased its military aid to Israel to an average of $3 billion per year for the following ten-year period (starting at $2.550 billion for 2008, growing by $150 million each year).  [/font]The package started in October 2008, when regular aid to Israel's economy ended.[/color]  Officials have insisted the aid is not tied, or meant to balance, simultaneous American plans to sell $20 billion worth of sophisticated arms to its Arab allies in the region, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia


Basically our government takes our tax money and gives it to other countries to buy weapons from private U S companies, and we maximize profits by selling weapons TO BOTH SIDES AT THE SAME TIME

This is a particular instance where we can disagree with what they are doing, but in the context of Eisenhower, who says we do need an armaments industry, who else is going to do the paying?    Dino said "an industry fed by the government".