$3 billion per year to Israel. Should we send more?

No. Each country is its own entity for a reason.

There is no way we can take care of anyone else in the least bit if we cannot, first and foremost, take care of ourselves. Israel is probably only such a good ally because they know they can mooch off of us. And the fact that we're economically in turmoil is a given, which makes Israel even more inconsiderate by taking billions from us every year.

We have virtually re-entered the Great Depression!

* Billion (word), explanation of long and short scales

* 1,000,000,000 (number), one thousand million, 109, in the commonly used "short scale"

* 1,000,000,000,000 (number), one million million, 1012, in the "long scale"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

Good news ! The Americans use the first definition and not the second --- well sort of good news

3 Billion dollars -

And the auto sector --????

The plan pumps $13.4 billion by mid-January.

In February, another $4 billion will be available for G.M. if the rest of the $700 billion bailout package has been released. (Edited for space)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/business/20auto....

So at one thousand million ---dollars times 3 ---- 3 billion dollars is

3 thousand million dollars --- and 300 million Americans -- that works out to ?

Each American gives Israel $ 3,000 per year on average

The Auto sector will get 4 billion in Feb

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OK ..... why did the Americans rebel against King George the 3rd ? Taxation without representation .............

Uh .... I see a problem

The auto sector is a "bunch of lazy bas---ds -- begging for taxpayers money" and they employ Americans which helps the American economy and yet Israel gives them absolutely no representation for what amounts to a tax which is the reason they committed treason against the King in the first place

Yeah sure give them more -- why not

The US shouldn't be supporting Israel anymore than it supports the Palestinians. I wonder why the States doesn't give the Palestinians hundreds of millions of dollars?

The US should keep its own house in oreder and look after her own citizens before sending all that money to Israel....how many schools or hospitals would that money build in the States? How many homeless Americans could be housed under a federal programme? How many US vets could get faster and better treatment? How many more cops could be on the streets? What a waste of money.

question: Are you ever going to ask approximately how one will end the billion plus spending on Egypt considering that funds may well be spent someplace else? And while you're at it, perhaps this is prudent for you in looking out how lots according to capita is spent interior the U. S. according to scholar. you will locate that it is the utmost interior the international. yet, you, and an excellent style of others, use that using fact the common occasion of how funds may well be extra ideal spent, as though poor American scholars are completely deprived using fact a heartless American government supplies funds to Israel. Please spare us the bushy thinking, ok?

We should send none. Israel has been using this money for awful purposes, look at this video http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qgNjU1feht4

it says somewhere in the video that when Israel shutdown 2% of its illegal settlements under international pressure, they offered about 200k dollar to each settler willing to relocate, and guess where thy got this money from ? our taxes, it kills me to know that we are paying to legalize Israel's actions!! Not to mention the forbidden warheads we have been sending to them, all the destruction technology that they are using on Gaza's civilians in this current conflict is basically given by U.S.

6 billion goes to israel each year since 1980 when reagan set it up

Hell, that's what make the US such a generous country! Give war torn countries money with strings so they have to spend it on US arms (or bubble gum I guess)

There should be constitutional amendment that no foreign aid is given when budget is not balanced except humanitarian aid for natural disasters that is from stockpile recycled.

I agree with sophia and dave and on top of that Isreal has become a spoiled brat(baby). The more u give to a unthankful person the more the person becomes arrogant and unthankful.

@ sulfer:

BTW-- a lot is given to Egypt and palestine too

can you please tell me who told you that ? or where did you get that from ? because it's wrong , and there's no enemy gives money to the other side !! how can you believe that USA supports both of Israel and its enemy at the same time ??