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Originally Posted by OkhamsRazor
The HUGE difference here is that none of these events is connected much less played part in a series of events that led to invasions of sovereign lands under false pretenses, and costing us $400 billion.
Get a little perspective please.
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Okay ... so he spent more than Clinton ...
but even Clinton blew out billions!
- $1.9 billion in foreign aid in support of the October 1998 Israeli-Palestinian agreement signed at Wye River, Maryland
- $2.5 billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill
- non-emergency expenditures were $1.9 billion in support of the Wye agreement and $250 million in technical assistance and credit for countries engaged in International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs.
The $900 million in Wye-related aid that would be approved for FY 1999 (an additional $500 million would follow in both the FY 2000 and FY 2001 budgets to reach the $1.9 billion total) is an 8 percent increase over the $11.4 billion in outlays for international assistance in FY 1998. It represents an increase of
28 percent in total assistance to
Israel,
Jordan, and the
Palestinian Authority for that year. By circumventing the normal budget procedures, the Clinton Administration was trying to wangle a backdoor increase in U.S. foreign aid after Congress rejected the President's proposed $663 million increase in U.S. bilateral foreign aid in the FY 1999 Omnibus Appropriations Bill. If the Administration wants to increase the foreign aid budget, it should follow the regular budget process.
Every President blows money .... look at the cost of a steak now ... costs keep going up
... ONLY common sense will tell you that Bush's spending won't be as bad as a President in twenty years - NO MATTER WHICH PARTY they are.
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