NY Times: Foreign Aid Slashed To All But Israel

[Scurrilous]

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"On Tuesday, the New York Times reported on page one that deficit and debt hawks in both parties are planning massive foreign aid cuts for the coming year.

Although foreign aid constitutes 1% of federal spending, it has long been a whipping boy for xenophobes and other pre-Pearl Harbor type isolationists.

Besides starving and abused women and kids in Africa don't exactly have a domestic constituency fighting on their behalf here in Washington. So, it's cut and slash and let 'em die.

In the words of the Times: "The proposals have raised the specter of deep cuts in food and medicine for Africa, in relief for disaster-affected places like Pakistan and Japan, in political and economic assistance for the new democracies of the Middle East, and even for the Peace Corps."

Of course, there is one foreign aid program that is not proposed for cutting in anyone's plan: not Obama's, not House Republicans or Democrats. And it happens to be the largest single foreign assistance program of them all $3.5 billion in aid to Israel. As the Times puts it, defending this particular program shows that "even in times of austerity, some spending is inviolable."

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/04/ny_times_foreign_aid_slashed_to_all_but_israel/


Foreign Aid Set to Take a Hit in U.S. Budget Crisis

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/us/politics/foreign-aid-set-to-take-hit-in-united-states-budget-crisis.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper

[n2doc]

1. They know who is boss n/t

[King_David]

3. Who is boss ? nt

[azurnoir]

2. I wonder if cuts in aid to Nigeria and Gabon will be included ?

They both have votes on the UNSC