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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 10:00 PM
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Rick Perry: Cut Foreign Aid 'To Zero,' Even For Israel
Rick Perry called for a radical new approach to American foreign aid spending in the GOP debate Saturday night, proposing that all aid be reduced "to zero," and then be re-implemented only once the country made a good case for their aid. Asked later in the night if he included Israel in that plan, Perry said he did.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/12/rick-perry-cut-foreign-aid-israel_n_1090535.html
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 10:03 PM
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1. Yes and with that 1/2 of 1% of the federal government reduced the budget would

be miraculously balanced.


Idiots.
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teddy51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 10:03 PM
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2. The only thing to date that I agree with this moran on. n/t
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 10:13 PM
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6. But
"The only thing to date that I agree with this moran on."

...can you be sure that he agrees with you?

Another great ad for Democrats via the brazillionth GOP debate.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 10:03 PM
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3. Well, he can kiss Florida goodbye--not that he'll be the nominee! nt
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 10:09 PM
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4. That stand will insure he is not the candidate.
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pocoloco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 10:11 PM
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5. He can expect a visit from aipac......
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 10:29 PM
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7. At which point, he will explain that he didn't mean THAT Israel. He meant the other Israel.
You know. Israel, West Virginia. :eyes:
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-13-11 11:42 AM
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23. "Gov. Perry? Aipac is on line 1!"
"OOPS!"
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dballance Donating Member (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 10:32 PM
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8. He's Really Toast Now That he Insulted Israel
Edited on Sat Nov-12-11 10:33 PM by dballance
Not just the obvious display of stupid in the last debate - now he's insulted Israel. He's done. You can't not support Israel 100% and win the US presidency.

I'm not anti-Semitic, but I am anti-favoritism. We need to treat all our allies the same. But we don't. Israel can do no wrong in the eyes of the US State Department. No matter how many Palestinians they exterminate or how many Palestinian settlements they obliterate.

It's wrong and we're wrong.
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 11:14 PM
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14. No matter how many Palestinians they exterminate?
Wow.
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NOMOREDRUGWAR Donating Member (319 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-13-11 01:54 AM
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17. Are you really surprised?
I agree -- wow. You'd think, reading some of the posts on here, that Israel is basically an apartheid state or analogous to Nazi Germany. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-13-11 07:35 AM
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18. Shocked by the use of the word "exterminate" in this context
I don't even think the South African apartheid regime was accused of "extermination".
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 10:48 PM
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9. So we'd stop selling bombs and guns and artillery to foreign countries?
Well, Perry, it was nice having you running. Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 10:56 PM
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10. Rick Perry friend of Israel.........Tel Aviv groans.
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Ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 10:57 PM
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11. Good for him
I'd take it a step further and demand Israel pay us foreign aid for all we've done for them.
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Cali_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 11:03 PM
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12. The US SHOULD cut off aid to all rogue nations
Edited on Sat Nov-12-11 11:05 PM by Cali_Democrat
That includes Israel since they are indeed a rogue nation that occupies foreign territory and violates UN resolutions. The US is also a rogue nation that is constantly on the war path and likes to occupy foreign territory, but I don't think we can cut off aid to ourselves. :shrug:

However, I don't think the US should cut off aid to nations that act within the bounds of international law.
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-13-11 07:35 AM
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19. Cut off aid to ourselves
Interesting conundrum.
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 11:09 PM
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13. The weekly "oops"
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Mosaic Donating Member (851 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 11:17 PM
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15. He gets two brownie buttons.
He would have a sort of Dream Act, and doesn't care what fellow conservatives think. And now this. He gets two brownie buttons from this Democratic Socialist.
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enuegii Donating Member (624 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 11:58 PM
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16. But I bet he still wants to keep the what-- 700? 800?
military bases we have in other countries.

"We're cuttin' you moochers off! But, uh, we're gonna keep our bases in your country, okay?"

I'm sure that'll work out just fine.
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Harmony Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-13-11 08:15 AM
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20. Perry simply doesn't understand the world
outside of Texas. Clueless...I suppose ignorance is bliss for Perry.
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Laelth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-13-11 08:55 AM
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21. Did he really say that?
If so, he is either colossally stupid or colossally craven. There's no way we're reducing our foreign aid budget to zero, nor should we. Perry must know this--i.e. he's colossally craven and willing to say anything to get elected.

-Laelth
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Mass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-13-11 09:59 AM
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22. This is not what he said. He said foreign aid should not be automatic, but renegotiated every year.
(and yes, even for Israel).

This said, like most Republicans, he is trying to use foreign aid as a cut, even though it is only a drop in the deficit and it is an useful spending.
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-13-11 07:12 PM
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24. Yes it is exactly what he said
Edited on Sun Nov-13-11 07:13 PM by oberliner
Did you read the article? Or even just the one paragraph included in the excerpt?
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Mass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-13-11 08:43 PM
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25. I saw the debate, and whoever wrote this article missed the point.
Edited on Sun Nov-13-11 08:47 PM by Mass
As much as I am sure I would not agree with Perry about who would get the foreign aid or not, his point was that NO foreign aid should be automatic and it should be renegotiated every year. Listen to the debate yourself. (or do you think that Israel has to have a preferential treatment that means they are entitled to US aid whatever?) Actually, my MIL, who is Jewish and a starch supporter of Israel, was not even bothered by this statement (she was more bothered by the calls to attack Iran).
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-11 06:34 AM
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26. I think they both say the same thing
The article says what you are describing.

Anyway, I don't like Perry and I certainly don't agree with his idea to cut foreign aid.

That's the least of our problems.
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