Billion dollars to the Ukraine??

[onechance]

How the hell are we able to give the Ukraine a billion dollars? We can't get our own debt under control. I guess the Fed just keeps printing the paper and we'll keep getting deeper in debt to ourselves.

Most people think that our almost 17 trillion dollar debt is owned by China, WRONG! Most of our debt is to ourselves, China only owns about 1.7 trillion.

Okay, rant over.

 

[bogeybrown]

I missed that one, did that story just come out today? I think more important than "CAN we" send them a billion dollars is WHY THE HELL SHOULD WE?

 

[pawprint2]

It's only just begun!!! One billion on day one, 1.5 billion from the IMF, the cost of all the military equipment we will be giving along with training, along with schools, planes, etc. etc.

 

[onechance]

And to think, the government couldn't pass a Vet health care bill. We need to stop being the worlds police dept., and bank.

 

[Mike_Honcho]

Aren't YOU glad YOU had a voice in the matter?

 

[Petrov]

This is fucking bullshit, we are fucking broke, we have a large population of veterans that are getting the short end of the stick and we are handing out free shit.

 

[High Binder]

Why not just give it directly to Putin? That's where it's going to end up when all this is done anyway...

 

[Petrov]

Why not just give it directly to Putin? That's where it's going to end up when all this is done anyway...

sadly there is a good chance of that.
We pretty much handed over M1 abrams tanks to muslim brotherhood in Egypt.

 

[onechance]

Kerry visits, and all the sudden Putang starts to cool down. Hmmm! wonder if that was a $ deal, icing both sides of the cake.

 

[High Binder]

Kerry visits, and all the sudden Putang starts to cool down. Hmmm!

Well it's not like they're ideologically any different (read between the lines).

 

[vmpglenn]

It's a billion in loan guarantees as I understand it, not a billion in direct funding. IMF is also involved. You do realize the just-submitted federal budget is $4 trillion, making a billion a literal drop in the bucket...

 

[onechance]

So, if a billion is a drop in the bucket, then why don't they drop a few drops into the Vets health care plan???

 

[Shoottothrill]

I just paid a shitload of federal taxes and am pissed about it. I want my money to go to veterans, schools, and maybe a few strippers, not the Ukraine.

 

[pmclaine]

So, if a billion is a drop in the bucket, then why don't they drop a few drops into the Vets health care plan???

Because vets are likely to think for themselves come that Tuesday in November rather than lose their self respect by offering their loyalty for a payoff. Benefits to those that earned them will be cut while benefits to those that haven't earned anything will buy a ballot.

 

[pmclaine]

sadly there is a good chance of that.
We pretty much handed over M1 abrams tanks to muslim brotherhood in Egypt.

Really Bushmasters? Whats next Tactical Rifles builds?

 

[gimpy]

sadly there is a good chance of that.
We pretty much handed over M1 abrams tanks to muslim brotherhood in Egypt.

Being Bushmaster, the joke is on the Arabs.

 

[Petrov]

Those were captured in Georgia

 

[Veer_G]

You do realize the just-submitted federal budget is $4 trillion, making a billion a literal drop in the bucket...

And it won't even reduce the deficit one iota. According to what I read, we're going to be spending more on feeding the interest payments than what we'll have to spend on national defense in about ten years or so.

 

[Delta4-3]

They just cut $600 a month out of my VA disability check with no explanation and will not give one. Maybe they are sending it to Ukraine. Any other 100% disabled vets have that happen this month?

 

[Guy Montag]

They just cut $600 a month out of my VA disability check with no explanation and will not give one. Maybe they are sending it to Ukraine. Any other 100% disabled vets have that happen this month?

This latest billion is what's making the news, but we've already pizzed away a helluva lot more than a billion on the Ukraine.


"We have invested more than 5 billion dollars to help Ukraine to achieve these and other goals.” Nuland said the United States will continue to “promote Ukraine to the future it deserves.”


Any questions as to where our "priorities" lie.

 

[onechance]

I'm a 100% disabled vet; the VA is jacking me around a bit, but I got a lawyer, he's nipped it in the bud. I tried the DAV, but they're taxed with people quitting and claims.

 

[High Binder]

“promote Ukraine to the future it deserves.”
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"Deserves" <-- I'm so sick of this mentality

 

[Delta4-3]

I'm a 100% disabled vet; the VA is jacking me around a bit, but I got a lawyer, he's nipped it in the bud. I tried the DAV, but they're taxed with people quitting and claims.

Ill probably have to do that too. Talk about an angry wife when she finds out we just lost $600 a month for no reason other than the country doesn't care! This is the 3rd time for me too.