Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!matthews From: matthews@harvard.ARPA (Jim Matthews) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Where has all the money gone, long time passing? Message-ID: <413@harvard.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 09:03:56 EST Article-I.D.: harvard.413 Posted: Fri Mar 1 09:03:56 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:08:42 EST References: <795@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard Lines: 18 > 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