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From: matthews@harvard.ARPA (Jim Matthews)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Where has all the money gone, long time passing?
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 09:03:56 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  1 09:03:56 1985
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> 	     It's easier for a foreign citizen to get US assistance than it
> 	is for a US citizen.  Let me offer the following news item as a 
> 	classic example:
> 
> 		"Since 1946 American taxpayers (and that includes the 
> 		farmers) have sent more than $27 billion in aid to 
> 		Israel--about 99 percent of which has been delivered
> 		since just 1965."
> 
> 	     I submit respectfully that if these figures are even approximately
> 	accurate, they are unconscionable, given the present state of affairs
> 	in the American midwest, the true land of Milk and Honey.

 That figure, $27 billion, is close to what taxpayers shelled out for farm
subsidies this past *year*, not to mention what they paid in higher prices.

Jim Matthews
matthews@harvard