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U.S. Senate Opts To Aid Israel Instead of Unemployed Americans
by DartagnanFollow
The Senate ended its session today before scampering home by (in effect) transferring a quarter billion dollars from unemployed Americans to Israel instead, so the nuclear-armed Superpower of the Middle East could improve its air defense system.
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Here's McCain, who voted against a three month extension of benefits to the long-term unemployed, reasoning it out for us:
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The measure passed with unanimous consent, because Israel is in a critical moment. The situation facing the long term unemployed in this country--losing their homes, losing their medical care, their futures, etc., is considerably less critical.
Read more:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/01/1318430/-U-S-Senate-Opts-To-Aid-Israel-Instead-of-Unemployed-Americans
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)Senators are not fools like many of us and vote against their own best interests.
4now
(1,596 posts)Their money.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)4now
(1,596 posts)Their priorities are almost as screwed up as the Republicans.They didn't even try to hold out for something for the American people.
I realize that if they don't support Israel's bloody slaughter they will lose the next election
but it makes me want to throw up.
Caretha
(2,737 posts)they may want to invest in their own "Iron Dome".
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)hate to tell them, but SO FAR they haven't done jack shit since January! How can they slack even more?
Uncle Joe
(58,362 posts)Thanks for the thread, Cali_Democrat.
Takket
(21,570 posts)I'd prefer that to this proxy war we are fighting by hiding behind Israel. We do everything for them except pull the trigger. Funding, weapons, all of it. They bomb a school, we shake our heads disapprovingly, and we ship them some more weapons.
Anyone hear calliope music?
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Corporate money is in hidden Israeli financial institutions. And no one has been prosecuted yet for the scams that robbed hardworking Americans of their pensions..except for the ENRON scandal. But there were many more.