{"id":3184,"date":"2008-06-07T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T14:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2008-06-07T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T15:09:14","slug":"americans-get-a-real-bang-for-their-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3184","title":{"rendered":"Americans get a real bang for their bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from Charley Reese&#8217;s piece, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/reese\/?articleid=12955\">Middle East Pop Quiz<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Which foreign-aid recipient is the only one allowed to receive its aid in a lump sum and which routinely invests part of it in U.S. Treasuries so that taxpayers pay them interest on the taxpayers&#8217; gift?<\/p>\n<p>Israel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Terrible enough that U.S. tax dollars enable brutal occupation in the name of a fundamentalist, racist government.  The gift is so generous the Israelis can afford to invest a portion of it.<\/p>\n<p>Israelis can also afford universal health care whilst Americans go without; police, build and expand illegal settlements whilst Americans are living in slums; build Jewish-only roads whilst U.S. roads and bridges are crumbling and collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>Americans get what in return, besides left in the dark, because the Israelis and friends can also afford the means to smother discussion and detractors within its donor country?<\/p>\n<p>Permanent war &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/irannuclearwatch.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/congress-must-not-be-left-asking-what.html\">justified with lies and propaganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from Charley Reese&#8217;s piece, &#8220;Middle East Pop Quiz&#8220;: Which foreign-aid recipient is the only one allowed to receive its aid in a lump sum and which routinely invests part of it in U.S. Treasuries so that taxpayers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Pm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}