Wednesday February 15, 2012

I've Been Thinking:

The White House presented its budget. Some things will knock your socks off.

The White House decided to go ahead and give $1.3 billion dollars to Egypt. The allocation is billed as reward for progressing down the path of democracy and having successful elections. The problem is that the Egyptians elected non-democratic parties. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Nouri party combined took over 70% of the parliament. And by the way, the Nouri party makes the Brotherhood look tame and liberal.

There's more. Egypt is still included in the White House budget despite having arresting 43 NGO workers. 19 are Americans and one is the son of the Secretary of Transportation.

It continues. $800,000 million is slated to go towards furthering the Arab Spring, but it is unclear where and what that means.

Meanwhile, Israel will get $3.1 billion, but their short range missile program was cut.

The US is cutting their only friend and the only democratic state in the region and is dumping $1.3 billion on an unknown entity (the New Egypt) that has elected Muslim extremists.

To round out allocation for the Middle East: Iraq is getting $11.8 Afghanistan $4.6 and Pakistan $2.4 billion. Jordan is only getting $300 million.

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