On Friday, President Biden signed a massive $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill that includes $13.6 billion in emergency Ukraine aid.
The bill appropriates $782 billion for military spending, a boost from the $778 billion that was authorized by the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. The military budget increased by 6% compared to last year.
On top of the $782 billion, the Pentagon will get $6.5 billion out of the Ukraine aid to pay for troop deployments in Eastern Europes and restock weapons the US has sent or is planning to send to Ukraine.
The spending bill also includes an additional $1 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. The extra Iron Dome funding is on top of the $3.8 billion in military aid that Israel gets from Washington each year.
Israel requested an additional $1 billion in military aid after its May 2021 bombing campaign in Gaza, which killed at least 256 Palestinians. At the time of the request, Israeli officials said the extra $1 billion was needed to replenish the Iron Dome and purchase more precision-guided bombs for the Israeli Air Force.
Joe “I’m a Zionist” Biden got to support that Israeli plan for a war with Iran, including funds for an Iron Dome that doesn’t work, if Ted Postol is right.
Some people call him Joker Joe or Jim Crow Joe.
And I am just bloody sick of it! Israel believes they are above everything and don’t mind taking the rest of us down as they go…
If there is a God, he’s gonna get an earful from me, when the time comes!
i remember a jew saying something like that for allowing the holocaust to happen…Cant remember the name or the exact quote but it was searing.
It is interesting that Bennett in Israel has advised Zelensky to take the deal.
It’s an offer that wont function. Ukraine is a vassal state.
Washington is spending money like there’s no tomorrow. Maybe they know something that we don’t.
Excellent point!
That leaves about $7 billion for a country with a history of public officials keeping their money in foreign countries.
Which is the figure Biden took from Afghan merchants and citizens who had entrusted that money in banks in Afghanistan. We have committed (and continue) piracy on the high seas, stealing Iranian oil then selling on the open market, now we steal from Afghanistan. Months ago Chris Hedges predicted our behavior. From Scheerpost, August, 2021: https://scheerpost.com/2021/08/30/hedges-the-empire-does-not-forgive/
The bill appropriates $782 billion for military spending- holey moley as if the USA doesnt spend far too much on war at the moment
I am incensed!
One Billion bloody dollars for Israel????????????????????
I don’t pay bloody taxes to cover Israel’s sh-t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
❤️👏
Thanks Gypsy, I needed that… 🙂
I will not be supporting Biden for a second term. I’m not even sure we will survive a first term………………………..
Biden’s bloody allegiance is suppose to be to the United States, not Bloody Israel!
Good luck with that…!!!!!!!
I know, I know but it makes me feel momentarily better?….
As an american taxpayer,not a rich one, or a corporation, i find this very offensive. Up go my taxes nad to pay for war or military subjugation and occupation in apartheid sates is not what i want to do with MY $…
i wonder if theres a way that citizens can sanction their own govt?
If you find a way, please let us know!!!
Vote all of them out, and I mean all of them, this year and 2024. On 4/15/2022 do not file a tax return. All 200 million of us. I know neither will happen. That is my solution.
Agree, vlp.
We need to stop paying federal taxes en masse.
And see if they can incarcerate ALL of us.
we have the right to overthrow
Yeah, go storm the capitol again, you trump lover.
–That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on …
This is in the united states Constitution-Perhaps you could read it[probably never have] for the first time and another point is that trump violated his oath of office[which is binding and lega] to the Constitution BY committing treason by attempted insurrection and should’ve e been tried and convicted in a court of law and thrown bone spurred feet first into prison.
“High crimes and misdemeanors” is a phrase from Section 4 of Article Two of the United States Constitution: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
The first passage is not fro the Constitution.
The Constitution does, however, specifically defines treason, and not in the way you do
Its from the Declaration of Independence
Yes, it is.
The Declaration of Independence was essentially the written notice of revolution.
The Constitution was the victory of the counter-revolution. It’s not just that they’re not the same thing or not alike, it’s that they’re opposites.
No scholar ever said anything remotely similar to that statement but according to the bill of rights,(pun intended), you have the right …
“No scholar ever said anything remotely similar to that statement.”
Incorrect.
I am sanctioning Joe Biden with my vote in 2022 and 2024!
Let’s Go Brandon!
Letitia James thinks it’s easy. All you have to do is understate the value of your taxable properties, then hire an army of lawyers to stall prosecution as the statute of limitations runs out.
Once a case is filed, the clock stop’s on the statute of limitations
Indeed. But as statistics show, the higher the income, the higher the support for sending the glorious military to fight in Ukraine. Or interfere in other ways. Among those with the lowest income the support is very low; among those with the highest income, the group now filled with the government’s allies, it is very high.
Those who get bone spur referrals do not go fight because they(Or big daddy) have the $ to pay for those to make it [legal].
Having daddy as the doctors landlord helped,eh?
Don’t forget Bye-Done’s “flat feet” 😉
And alls they had to do was “request” it!
I’m with you!
And well said!
thanks Donna, simple black/white to lil’ old me is all…
Not to mention all the inflation all the Biden give aways are creating.
And the increased untenable debt that no one talks about..
You are probably happy with Israel getting billions for decades only to get our soldiers killed in foreign wars against Muslims. You are probably good with that, don’t you?
Don Julio:
This is an antiwar website. We come here to be supportive of each other and our concerns about war.
I think it is important for you to understand that.
0-2 genius-Are you purposely trying to get athletes foot, in your mouth? Ever hear CPT(Christian Peacemaker Teams)? i was in one 10 years when i went to Palestine. Ever hear of it? i was there protesting with Black Hands in Jerusalem. Walking a gravel road with Palestinian kids getting harassed by illegal israeli settlers who bothered the kids on the way to school and home. One youngster put his hand in mine as were followed by those jerks in a white station wagon, hoping for an ‘incident’. Bethlehem was the worst/best. Ever been there? Waiting outside of town in the hot sun with the Palestinians coming home from work outside of town. Bethlehem is surrounded by grey walls pockmarked with watchtowers just like a prison with armed Israelis soldiers who are nice and comfortable inside with a/c. Ever argue at 3am with an israeli corneal who asked me what i was doing there making his soldier nervous just because i couldnt sleep and i was standing on the roof top listening to a wonderful wedding party still going on(nearly got into alot of trouble with CPT and the israelis over that one… i was there for 2 weeks. israeli is an illegal apartheid state of denial and oppression and the greatest crime of our time is what happens in Palestine. i was hoping to get to Gaza but thats rather difficult.
Ready for the 3rd, or is this enough?
Deganawida
Thank you with all my heart for what you did.
Every hat in my closet is off to you.
i just finished listening to Simon and Garfunkel’s greatest hits(havent played it in years on this cloudy cold day here in cherry) with one song i sang that night in Hebron(Sound of Silence). Now i turn on my computer and read your note in my email. You made me cry,and make me feel like i am doing the right thing in life…Thank you for the positve reinforcement.. i am just another weak and flawed human needing a a hug now and then..Thanks again-Oddly,its just what i needed right now…And a pleasant reminder; ‘Their is no higher wisdom than kindness’…
You are most certainly not weak, and we as human beings are all flawed! I wish I had your courage and fortitude. And all the hugs in my repertoire to you 🙂
Are you hitting on me? Just Kidding! [I wish I had your courage and fortitude.] You do Gyp[sy33! But like all who strive. you give yourself not 1/100 the credit you deserve. We all are like that. Every person who have done ‘great things’ in life go to their graves considering themselves failures,everyone. Know why? Because each has never accomplished in life what they wanted to but instead have done great in other areas…Ironic,eh? If we save 99 sheep we give not ourselves any credit for it and instead we beat ourselves silly for the one we lost. It is our nature…
Beautifullly said and great food for thought Deganawida!
And…thank you 🙂
If only all the world were like you and Donna!
back back i say back under your rock troll..
Inflation is already high yet 1.5 trillion more is spent. The US should not give Israel the time of day
More importantly Scott, it is ISRAEL that should be sanctioned for crimes against humanity.
I didn’t look past Obama. Spending has gone up every year since he was elected. Trump, even before COVID, was no exception. I’m not a Biden hater. But his spending increases are increasing the ratio of debt to GDP. We were expected to hit 19.4 percent by 2026 BEFORE the invasion. Interest on the debt will increase the instant the Federal Reserve hikes the prime rate. There is already talk of stagflation. I hope there’s a rabbit in his hat.
Force Biden to live on the worst streets in American cities.
When the British govt’s Third World aid department wanted more money to give to other countries, Margaret Thatcher moved their office to the poorest part of a Scottish city, so they could see the plight of their own countrymen. That was pretty funny.
(Scotland’s economy tanked after WWII, when war industries disappeared, and better refrigeration made the import of mutton cheaper than Scottish mutton, and lots of Irishmen moved to Scotland. Also the cities had been bombed during the war. The people who had moved from the countryside to the cities were suddenly unemployed. Scotland was also flooded with drugs.)
A Billion Dollars??? I thought I dreamed it. I thought it was a nightmare and that it would be gone when I awoke. But here I am and yes, it is true, Israel wants a bloody Billion Dollars in military aid… Additional monies…. If the US gives them this money, they should just simply say that Israel owns us: hook, line and sinker…
Where do we get a billion dollars from?… On top of 3.8 Billion dollars, annually?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is obscene. No wonder we’re bloody broke. They just continue to do what they do and smile about it, while they spend our money… And kill as many Palestinians as they want to. They answer to no one and our country has enabled the Israelis.
What does the bloody American tax payer get? Squat. Oh wait, that’s not true… We get Palestinian blood on our hands…………………………………………………………
It is time for us to admit that Israel owns us and will continue to own us until we put a stop to it……………………………………………………………………………………
One day, Israel will drop nukes, perhaps on Iran or anybody else they don’t like and we’ll just sit here and clap and gently smile and say: “Well done!”
I don’t feel that my country belongs to me, to us, anymore.
F-ck this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am disgusted, fed-up and bloody well disgusted…………………………….
The Amerikkkan Congress, with few exceptions, is soaked in the blood of the Palestinian people 😡
Talk about throwing good money after bad…
First, we don’t need ANY more spending. We already have an overheated economy and record inflation. But if we’re gonna waste more money, why not spend the to build some houses to get the homeless off the streets and bring the housing prices down? But NOPE, the first priority is always war. Disgusting.
In my lifetime, I haven’t seen this much money and resources being poured into a single country. Russia must have touched a nerve center.