Forgive me in advance if this comes off as too remedial but as I was reading an article about the issues in Egypt, I came across this.
The US gives $1.5 billion in annual military and economic aid to Egypt. That sum is second only to America's annual grant to Israel, a practice that dates to the 1979 peace treaty the U.S. brokered between the two neighbors.
I am all for us trying to help other countries in the name of peace and solidarity but only after we are able to clean up our major issues here in the US and if we are giving over 3 billion just to Egypt and Israel, I wonder how much we give other countries in total and would think we need to balnce our own budgets first before dumping all that money to other countries.
Am I being too naive or simplistic here?
The US gives $1.5 billion in annual military and economic aid to Egypt. That sum is second only to America's annual grant to Israel, a practice that dates to the 1979 peace treaty the U.S. brokered between the two neighbors.
I am all for us trying to help other countries in the name of peace and solidarity but only after we are able to clean up our major issues here in the US and if we are giving over 3 billion just to Egypt and Israel, I wonder how much we give other countries in total and would think we need to balnce our own budgets first before dumping all that money to other countries.
Am I being too naive or simplistic here?
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