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CAIRO — The United States said on Sunday it would give Egypt $250 million in budget aid after Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi promised to take the painful economic reforms needed to secure an IMF loan.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced the funding after meeting Mursi and acknowledged Egypt's "extreme needs" as the Islamist government struggles with a slide in currency reserves to worryingly low levels and a soaring budget deficit.
Cairo says it wants to reopen talks with the International Monetary Fund on a $4.8 billion loan which was agreed in principle last November but suspended at Cairo's request due to violent street protests the following month.
"In light of Egypt's extreme needs and President Mursi's assurance that he plans to complete the IMF process, today I advised him the United States will now provide the first $190 million of our pledged $450 million in budget support funds," Kerry said in a statement at the end of a visit to Cairo.
The $190 million is part of a $1 billion pledge by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2011 after Egypt's popular uprising.
Kerry also said the United States would release $60 million for an Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund, which is designed to support small and medium companies in the private sector.
However, the U.S. diplomat hinted further aid will depend on Egypt carrying out both economic and political reforms.
"The United States can and wants to do more," he said. "When Egypt takes the difficult steps to strengthen its economy and build political unity and justice, we will work with our Congress at home on additional support."
A spur to reform
Kerry described the funds as "a good-faith effort to spur reform and help the Egyptian people at this difficult time". On Saturday he said it was "paramount, essential, urgent" that the economy get back on its feet.
However, the sum is dwarfed by the budget deficit, which is growing rapidly as a slide in the Egyptian pound pushes up the cost of subsidizing energy and food, much of which has to be imported using scarce dollars.
In a reform program which Egypt is sending to the IMF, the government targeted a deficit for this financial year of 189.7 billion Egyptian pounds ($28 billion) or 10.9 percent of economic output. Even this assumes economic reforms are made, and the deficit would hit 12.3 percent of GDP without such action, it forecast.
Egypt's political and economic turmoil has frightened away foreign investors and many tourists - a major source of the foreign currency it needs to pay for wheat and fuel imports.
Two years after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is deeply split between the ruling Islamists and the leftist and liberal opposition parties, most of which have announced they will boycott parliamentary elections due to start next month.
On Sunday, a Cairo appeals court ordered that a politically fraught retrial of Mubarak, his sons and top aides should begin on April 23, nine days before the elections are due to begin.
Mubarak, the first Arab ruler to be tried by his people after the uprisings that swept the Middle East and North Africa, was jailed for life for ordering the killing of demonstrators in 2011, but was granted a retrial by a Cairo court in January.
Jacquelyn Martin / Pool via Reuters
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) shakes hands with Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi at the Presidential Palace in Cairo March 3, 2013.
As Kerry completed his visit, protesters and security forces clashed in Cairo's Tahrir Square, center of the revolution, as police tried to clear demonstrators and open the square to traffic, a witness said.
Unidentified assailants set fire to a police vehicle outside the nearby Egyptian Museum, where the treasures of Ancient Egypt are on display, the state news agency MENA reported.
Hundreds of people were also injured in the Suez Canal city of Port Said during clashes between police and protesters there, security and medical sources said.
Egypt's armed forces said on its Facebook page one military officer was wounded when he was shot in the leg and one soldier from the security forces was killed when he was shot in the neck by "unknown elements".
April IMF deal?
Finance Minister Al-Mursi Al-Sayed Hegazy was optimistic that an IMF agreement could be sealed before the four-stage lower house poll gets under way on April 22. "I expect and am hopeful this deal can be made before the elections," he told reporters.
Economists are divided between those who see such a timetable as over-optimistic and those that believe Egypt cannot hold out much longer without help.
Foreign currency reserves tumbled to $13.6 billion in January from $36 billion before the fall of Mubarak, and the Egyptian pound has dropped 8.2 percent since the central bank began auctioning dollars at the end of December.
Reserve figures due out this week are expected to show a continuing slide further below $15 billion - the amount needed to fund three months' imports, economists said.
However, the price of any deal is likely to be high. Egypt is sending projections to the IMF of huge increases in gasoline and diesel prices as it comes under pressure to curb soaring energy subsidies, a cabinet official said on Sunday.
The government plans to continue subsidized fuel prices for the most needy, under a rationing system to be implemented in July. However, Egyptians excluded from this scheme would face a jump in prices that could provoke public fury if implemented.
The official, who is part of the cabinet's economic team, told Reuters the increases would be put to an IMF team once it arrives in Cairo to negotiate the loan. "The new prices are included in the economic reform program that will be presented to the IMF mission," said the official, who requested anonymity.
Petroleum Minister Osama Kamal was quoted by the state news agency MENA as describing the figures as estimates and said that no decisions had yet been made. According to the projections, the commonly used 90 octane gasoline would leap to 5.71 Egyptian pounds ($0.85) a liter from 1.75, while diesel would go up to 5.21 pounds from 1.10.
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How about $100,000,000.00 to people who actually work. People who pay back into this corrupt system. But no, let's give the money away and pretend it is not for them to acquire weapons...
another bribe to a country to like us .
then Kerry will be on TV making a high five about how much of a Ally Egypt is. what a joke !
what about giving this money to our own country, keeping it here, so that we dont have homeless people, people that work can actually live and not have to live from paycheck to paycheck and sometimes we cant even do that??????? Sounds like our government or what ever you want to call them would rather give other countries money and not take care of their own. Pretty sad. anymore, what is the American dream? Except for our troops serving the country and all of us for freedom. But freedom from what?? Quit giving other countries money when its needed here.
Lets give it away pretending it goes to the government.
Yesterday Kerry was trying to give away I M F money.
Then suddenly today he decides to give them more?
WTF?
Does he have to ask Congress for this money or can he just give out hundreds of millions of dollars to anyone he wants?
He wants several billion from the IMF on top of the billions we gave them last year.
That wasn't fast enough for the Sunni leaders though so he threw in this money to keep them happy.
I wonder how they like the 200 Abrams tanks we just gave them.
Or the f-16's we gave them.
We supported them ousting our long time ally and now we pour money and weapons into them. WOW!
As usual, the budget "cuts" will not affect one dime of foreign aid handouts.
The budget cuts have them crying about shortfalls but theres always money around to help sculpt and shape regions in preparation for eventual capitalist takeover... This is literally the rich getting richer and the poor getting @!$%#ed worse, right before your eyes...@!$%# voting on a government party. Let's just vote on how to spend the tax money collected every year instead.
Let's lay off our troops and take away guns from our citizens so we can employ and arm terrorists like the Muslim Brotherhood.
I feel like I'm trapped in a bad dream.
Sunnis 1,,,,,,,,,,,,, Infidels 0
Seems this article downplays the real amount we will be giving them.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for President Mohammed Morsi’s pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250 million in American aid to support the country’s “future as a democracy.”
An agreement would unlock more of the $1 billion in U.S. assistance promised by President Barack Obama last year.
“The United States can and wants to do more,” Kerry said, we will work with our Congress at home on additional support.”
Unreal...this guy Mursi might be in charge only a few weeks more for all we know and this newbie U.S. Secretary of State has a open wallet and gives him a quarter of a BILLION dollars???
No wonder we are doomed here in the USA!
Stopping the waste starts at our border lines..nothing goes beyond them!
Annually America contributes 150 Billion Dollars to the International Monetary Fund. 17.7% of all their funding.
Obama wants to raise that amount.
REDISTRIBUTION.
I will fill in for Fiesty Redhead, shes cashing her check at Walmart right now....
Way to go Obama and Kerry maintaining our solid relationships with countries like Syria and Egypt is important. I know you have worked so hard and budget cuts recently and couldnt find ANY places where you could save the taxpayer any money. Most polls support sending this money overseas while our own country struggles! Way to go !!
how about the illegality of our federal government giving our money to known criminals, the muslim brotherhood are criminals and they are not our ally and since the form of governance in egypt has changed, all treaties with the former egyptian government are null and void. muslim brotherhood are enemies of this country, the federal government is aiding and abetting foreign enemies, traitors them all.
Hey, wait a minute! I thought we had this thingy - dingy called SEQUESTERING going on in regards to our national budget negotiations!
And I thought that we this Country weren't supposed to give any support to violent Islamofascist Jihadist thugs! It's kinda like treason, isn't it?????
Oh, wait *snap*. The 'tards in Washington get an exemption. My bad!
Never mind.
Carry on, folks. Carry on.
" The Senate appropriations Committee will respond to a request by the Obama administration to attach $108 billion increase to the I M F to a Supplemental Wartime Spending Bill.
In order to make this politically feasible, the administration has argued that the true cost of the $108 Billion was actually ZERO.
The Non Partisan Congressional Budget Office did not buy this argument."
I have a feeling Obama voters would buy that bull.
Let's give away $108,000,000,000.00 and it won't cost us a penny.
Redistribution to Sunni Leaders and lazy Greeks
If you can find any ammo,,,,,,,,, buy it.
If you can find any. Government is buying it all...
Americas largest expenses
819 billion to Federal Pensions ................................ Exempt
846 billion to Health care.......................................... Exempt
451 billion to welfare................................................ Exempt
300 billion for interest on the debt.............................Exempt
150+ billion for I M F ............................................... and growing
902 billion defense spending..........................half of sequester cuts are mandated to come from here
and we don't even have a budget.
Ground Air Force One until a budget is passed.
150 billion to the I M F
153 billion for U.S. Dept. of Education.
Redistribution is happening right under our noses.
It's not taking money from rich Americans to give to poor Americans.
It is taking from all Americans and giving it to Broke countries and OIL RICH Muslim Nations.
Blutowski o.o, I have to agree with your last statement. This country is on the brink of going straight to hell and Obama and all those other greedy SOB in Washington are putting us there! I am so happy that I spent 14 years in the US Army to see our government sell us out! I am so pissed and if I wasn't so broke, I WOULD be buying all the ammo and guns I can to be part of the revolution that is coming. It is time to reboot and rebuild this great nation of ours with the principles of our forefathers!!
Damn BUSH and his Damned SEQUESTER.
What are these morons in Washington DC thinking? How can they justify sending money overseas like this, with all the problems we have in the U.S.
I can only think of one reason these greedy turds insist on doing this, they are getting some kind of kick back or pay off in a secret bank account, again off shore somewhere.
Nothing else makes sense. This is a Islamic republic and these people hate us. What gives, it makes me sick.
Our government is so out of touch, they should all be kicked out and the "exceptions to the constitution" they have enacted need to be eliminated. We need to start with a clean slate. These guys all need to go to jail.
Damn BUSH and his Damned SEQUESTER.
Spiceweasel
If I keep reading these numbers I'm going to have a stroke.
Picked a bad time to run out of weed.
Joe...... Thanks for your sacrifice. Hope you somehow get some cash flow.
If all else fails try N. Dakota. They have low unemployment and OIL MONEY.
Barack Obama - "We must continue to support the Muslim Brotherhood" - The True Women Haters"
John Kerry - "Ah hell no - I don't want any tomatoes or shoes thrown at me like you guys did Hillary!" "I like this head"
We don't need that money here - we got plenty boys!
Sequester did you say? $250 Million - that could help many in our country
How about another golf get a way vacation Barack - on the big jet!
Fishy, what kind of guitar is that?
It isn't an SG is it?
Is Kerry even aware of the Sequester?
He spent 4 years working under Obama and could get us a budget.
He is in Egypt 2 days and gives away $450,000,000.
So he can Deal with Leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood better than he can deal with his fellow Senators.
Hmmmmmm.
He convinced them they had to raise taxes. LMFAO. You can't make this SH!T up.
Someone needs to get the stage hook and get Kerry back in a cage. Does he think he is Daddy Warbucks?? This is absolutely insane to be giving other countrys like Syria 60 mill and Egypt 250 mill while the whole country is in sequester and trying figuring out the whole debt. I can't believe I read more BS like this everyday.......................STOP THE MADNESS.
John Kerry - so filthy rich - he makes Mitt Romney look middle class - Johnny Paycheck - Really nice suit and hair
Here's another $250 million Muslim Brotherhood - we don't really care how you treat women and the gay
We don't need to give countries money to do what we want. We could have the military do that.
Nation building only if we get compensation from the country in the form of territory or assets.
Kerry: Here's a spare $250 mil I had laying around. Yours to keep.
Mursi: I thought the US was in a tight spot with the budget.
Kerry: Not really. We are going to cut one meal a day from shut-in seniors on the Meals-on-Wheels program, furlough some workers who need their paychecks to cover their bills, and reduce the amount we fund medicare. That should easily cover the piddly amount I'm giving you. If you need more, remember I'm only a phone call away.
Mursi: Pleasure getting to know you. Rest assured I will be calling you soon!
Kerry: Great! Now I have to go see if the money I gave the Syrians was enough. Probably not. Much work to do over there too! Have a great day!
Kerry has enough to pay this out of his own pockets. And then some.
Okee boy nailed it.
All of you raise both hands and arms in the air, like you are getting robbed (you are getting robbed again).
Those of you that do not want to pay for this put your hands and arms down and contact President Obama and the US Congress (US Senate and US House of Representatives):
Contact President Obama:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments
Contact US Congress (US Senate and US House of Representatives):
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Those of you that want to pay for this hand over your wallets and purses, credit cards, property, sign over your homes and vehicles, etc.; as well as your future children's money, property, etc..
TAX DAY IS COMMING.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, make check payable to: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
This seems to have pissed people off. Almost enough to make them snap.
I hope it is not by plan.
250 mil for Egypt, 800 mil for Afghanistan, 450 mil for Iraqi, 1.5 bil for Israel, 1.5 bil our stipend to the IMF, it goes on and on; we are feeding the third world and have hunger at home; does not anyone in Washington see the picture, or is it already to late!
It's understandable, Congress wants to cut so called entitlements like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps & other programs designed to help the elderly & the needy here in this country so that they can give more away to all these countries who hate us & only tolerate our politicians for the freebie's that they can get. Let the Muslim countries take care of them & let China take care of the others. It seems like the only ones who are getting appointed to cabinet positions are the ones who want to give this country away. Way to go voters. Your like sheep being led to the slaughterhouse & don't realize it. More will be coming your way
Where is Feisty,Pat the Boston,Tony Beereem,jody and Americam Girl. Never hear a peep from them when it has to do with this S@#t. All they do is talk trash and bash. Kerry has lost all his marbles on this one.
Bluto: Guitar looks like a Stratocaster.
Add:
The "Syrian Rebels" aka Al Quada Iraq, Al Quada Syria, Kurdistanis PKK, HPG, KGK.
The "Libyan Rebels", the Government Officially Recognized by President Obama as the Al Quada Saudi Arabia (AQ), Al Quada Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al Quada Syria (AQS), Al Quada Yemen (AQY), Hezbollah, Al Quada Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), etc..
The "Yemenis Rebels", as Al Quada Yemen.
Oh, heck, just add all of the Millions of Holy Warriors of Islam (aka US Department of State Terrorist Organizations Lists):
(aka Jihadists, Terrorists) consisting of the International Al Quada Franchise (AQ, AQY, AQS, AQI, AQAP, AQIM, AQ Somalia, etc.), Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG aka "the Libyan Rebels"), Army of Islam Pakistan (not the Pakistanis Military), Pakistanis Taliban, Army of Islam Gaza, Hezbollah (Party of Allah, Palestine, Lebanon, Gaza, Libya, South and Central Americas, etc.), Hamas Foreign Fighters (Palestine, Libya, Gaza, South and Central Americas, maybe Mexico, etc.), Islamic Chechen Foreign Fighters, Muslim Brotherhood (Alexandria Egypt), Kongra Gel/Kurdistan Worker's Party (KGK/PKK), Jemaah Islamiya (JI), Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), Fatah al-Islam (FAI), Ansar al-Islam (AI), Ansar al-Sunna (AS), Abu Nidal Organization (ANO), Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (AAMS), Al-Shabaab, Ansar al-Islam (AAI), Asbat al-Ansar, Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group), Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B), Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM), Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban of Afghanistan, Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed), Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI), Kata'ib Hezbollah (KH), Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous), Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ), Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM), Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK), Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC), Harakat-ul Jihad Islami (HUJI), Jundallah, etc.
Moro Islamic Liberation Group (MILF), recently added Haqqani Network (Pakistan), Boko Haram (Nigeria) to the US Department of State's Terrorist Organizations Lists.
How's this (clarified your post You cant be serious!):
Wait a moment great American tax payers,
I know to some of you (GOP, right wing extremists) that this would seem to be a waste of our ever so valuable tax payer dollar, but I assure you most Americans polled Agree with this spending and would support more in the future. Because America is about giving Everyone a shot, Everyone deserves a fair shake, whether your from Niger or Syria or Egypt hell just about everyone but the people here in the USA. Once your broke and we have your guns you will also have the same shot or fair shake as they do in Niger, Egypt or Syria.
@Blutowski 0.0
Do us all a favor quit the spamming before they ban you. It's @!$%#ing annoying.
Completely fed up with our government at this point. Theyre whining about the sequester and all the cuts that will devastate our country but somehow find hundreds of millions (even billions) to send to egypt. This must stop.
Chris, Your great leader is an idiot.
You are in lonely territory tonight.
Hard to defend The Administrations moves.
We spend as much on the IMF as we do on EDUCATION.
And now tell me, fools, you're the ones that voted the POS government and it's leader into office less than 3 months ago. Now eat your crow...................
@Blutowski 0.0
Well, let's see your frequency of posting on this thread. Posts that were not replies to someone, just you ranting.
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Was this some misguided cry for attention?
The fact that you can not defend Obama's action and you have to attack me is pathetic.
texasbluedarter, ALL politicians are liars and if you think any of them are nice people and don't lie then you are lying to yourself ! I don't trust ANY of them !
@BLutowski,
Why not just say what you feel in one paragraph or a few of them and leave it at that? For example :
I think giving American money to foreign countries is a waste of money right now. I'm sick of the government trying to grease palms when we have our own country to worry about first. Economy sucks, the dollar is sucking it even more and there are people here who would benefit more from a larger investment in the USA.
I wish that both political parties would get a major reform. They are USELESS, time wasting, no good politicians bloated from suckling at the biggest teat in politics : Special Interest Groups!
PATHETIC. Why can't the bickering American populace realize that both parties are to blame for the state this country is in? @!$%# the Tea Party too, btw.
@ You cant be serious,
I read these threads all day long. Seems to me, that either you or an alias of you is constantly criticizing someone named "Feisty Redhead", (I don't see Red too often)...
Boy, she must be all you think about? She gotten under your ol'skin? Time to spank your monkey and cry her name, maybe? (Don't worry, you can go back to 'hating' her in the morning).
Btw, Idk either of you ppl. I have noticed that if the discussion is politics "Red" keeps being bashed on. Red :1
Haters :0 (zero)
See how that works, Blutowski? Get it out on the SAME post. Posting more doesn't make you more relevant.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
SEQUESTER?
F**K THE SEQUESTER, WE HAVE LOTS OF MONEY, UNCLE BEN IS PRINTING IT UP AS WE SPEAK!!!!
So, now we're
bargainingbribing Islamic terrorists AKA the Muslim Brotherhood.I guess Barrack Hussein was telling the truth when he said, “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” You can't get much uglier than this.
$250,000,000 is the first
installmentbribe, with billions to follow.So, the sixteen F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks we gave them wasn't enough. Maybe they need to buy gas for all those weapons of mass destruction, eh? At a cost of about $17 million per F-16 and $8.5 million per Abrams I can see where we need to give terrorists more money WE DON’T HAVE!!!!
I wonder how much of this money will go to Qatar to help support Al Qaeda?
I suppose Morsi never really meant in September 2010, calling the Israelis "blood-suckers", "warmongers" and "Descendants of apes and pigs". Nah, he was just kiddin'.
I wonder if Kerry rolled the window down as he flew over Israel and pissed on them?
"The United States said on Sunday it would give Egypt $250 million in budget aid after Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi promised to take the painful economic reforms needed to secure an IMF loan."
There is no money for the needy in the US.
But US nut heads have all the money for ther greedy and hating and killing Sunni Islamists.
Chris from Yucaipa
Put a sock in it Chrissy.
Every day we have to put up with the endless Liberal/Progressive nonsense blathering from Fisty, Bev, Never Stop Asking Questions, Starsailing, Johntho, Pigotry, seaskip, American Girl and all the other miscreants on here.
The only one crying is you Chrissy.
Aw Jim, still acting the 3 year old I see.
Yep, I see them as well. But what I don't see are them pulling a Blutowski in which they spam post after post, 1 or 2 mins apart, for 3 full hours, with every nonsensical brain turd that happens to fall onto their keyboard. As for your post a few spots up, talk about a load of ignorant bull@!$%#. I will truly pity you if it's later discovered that you actually believe the idiocy you wrote.
Btw, thanks for the inadvertent compliment. I'm honored you took time out of your busy schedule to jump on here and whine about my own post.
Do we have freedom of expression?
Are we in some Muslim nation or commie nation like China?
If not, then Bluto has all the freedom to post.
I have no problem if he posts more and more!
At least, he will be happier and less tense with more and more posts.
I find it amusing that or government CAN'T pass a budget but are offering budget assistance to people that hate us except when we give them more money.
Yes because quantity is clearly better than quality...
We have an economy that is in the toilet, with the president considering cutting social security and yet you can pi$$ away $250m to a bunch of f*****g muslims. What is wrong with this country!!!!!?????
And once again the liberals will "swear" that there is nothing at all that they can cut from the budget! Excuse me, why are we giving out this much money to a beggar when we are about to be homeless?!
Let me rephrase my last post: Why is the government giving out our money to beggars when the entirety of the U.S. is on the brink of being homeless?!
I agree with Chris. Seems that Blu has diarrhea of the mouth (by way of the keyboard). It gets tedious, dude.
Chris...: "Quality" is debateable.
Some posts claiming that they are "quality" posts are simply garbage.
Why worry about Bluto...s? Let them take out their frustrations.
After some time, some improve too.
Mr. Kerry is just continuing where Mrs. Clinton left off.....more American taxpayer dollars down the toilet.
Looks like Mr. Kerry needs to "tour" the Congressional Halls and preach his International "economic reforms" agenda.
I can hardly wait for the Progressives say they need to come up with $ 250,000,000 to avoid the Continuing Resolution, otherwise America will go bankrupt.
Wait a minute....the Progressives are saying there is NOT a SPENDING problem, but a PRIORITY problem.
Does Secratary Santa Claus just do overseas visits or can he stop by my house???
In December of 2010 the I M F sold off 403 metric tons of GOLD.
Leaving them 2814 Metric tons of GOLD.
I think it is time to take an audit of Fort Knox to see if there is any gold left.
Can a Democrat explain to me what is happening?
He will be stopping by everyone's cardboard box on the streets in the form of President Obama's Tax Collectors.
Welcome to President Obama's United Somalia of America. (all you thought I was joking before with my posts starting 2009, Cause(s) + Effect(s) = Result(s)). Too bad Philosophy (Logic) is not a Mandatory Course for US Education.
Good f**king joke.
Democrats: It's the Easter Bunny's Fault. It's Santa Claus's Fault. It's Society's Fault.
dunno about them Democrats explaining anything but I am still waiting for Iraq to pay the 2 TRILLION dollars they owe us for saving their arses and paying to rebuild-retrain-and-restore their country after we got Sadaam out of his drainage ditch. Remember the oil wells were going to pay us for all this expense? And yet we have never gotten a cent so the 2 or 3 billion for Egypt and the IMF is just 1% of that load of Tax Dollars.
Don't hold your breath, davey boy, due to President Obama's Failed Foreign Policies the US and US Allies lost the Iraqis Oil to the Allies of the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran, the Chinese and Russian Federation.
US Ally Saudi Arabia, "President Obama gave Iraq to Iran as a gift on a Golden Platter"
This Loss made the US Ally Libyan Oil of Strategic Importance to the US European Allies (President Obama already outsmarted as the Holy Warriors of Islam were already attacking US Ally Libya to murder US Ally President Gaddaffi the Collaborator to the Christians, Jews, Unbelievers from Egypt after President Obama chopped all US Assistance, US Support, US Funding of US Ally President Mubarak after he warned President Obama of "Increased Al Quada Like Activities", then President Obama started his typical name-calling of US Allies "Dictator".).
Bobby McFerrin - Don't worry Be happy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv-Fk1PwVeU
Typical Yahoo outcry! I bet some of the same folks crying about aid to Egypt are also gungho armchair warriors..huh? Guess where the Suez Canal is located and guess how our Mega AirCraft Carriers get to the Persian Gulf, any ideas out there? EGYPT! Now how would you folks want one of thoe big boys with all our fine men and women sunk in the Suez Straits? Stop griping about things over your pay grade.
patrik-952691, quit drinking the obummer kool-ade, you think Egypt would try to stop one of our aircraft carriers, you think that they have a death wish?
We have a lame duck president and now he and his hinchmen are going to give America away. You voted for him, now live with him. Romney's statement about the 47% that are lost causes now run this government.
texasbluedarter, politicians cannot be trusted, NONE of them !
With oil price manipulations from $40 in 2009 to more than $110, oil rich Sunni rulers, oil companies and their lobbyists are bankrupting most of us.
See the joke!
Oil rich Sunni rulers and their sheikhs are not financing economic crisis ridden Egypt, but we and IMF have to fund Islamist rulers of Egypt.
You see: oil rich Sunni rulers and their shiekhs monies are for their hate preaching and killer training Sunni Salaffi and Wahhabi mosques all over the world and funding their killer gangs like al Qaida, Taliban, Boko Haram, Muslim Bloodhounds, Salaffi and others who consider us as their enemy No. 1!
"Kerry described the funds as "a good-faith effort to spur reform and help the Egyptian people at this difficult time"."
This is bankrupting us from another end! Where does money for IMF, WB and others come from?
Even many Egyptians hate their Sunni Islamist Morsi and his MB and Salaffi, who want Sharia Laws in Egypt!
Which side Kerry, Hillary, McCains and other politicians are on: enemies or friends?
American Strat, Norm, thanks....
What about the sequester?
That was like soooo last Friday. Stop living in the past.
The BUSH SEQUESTER PASSED. The end is near,
Where did all the money go? Pockets of 1 percenters... Where will they get the necessary 'money' to fix the problem? Taxpayers. But since they sent alot of the taxpayers jobs to china or gave them to machines, there aren't going to be enough taxes to pay for infrastructure, let alone repairing the economy. And unfortunately infrastructure itself ages like everything else... We're talking bridges, roads, piping systems, ETC...
Kerry is making Hillary's treasure giveaway skills look weak.
If I was rich, I would be pissed sending some of my tax dollars to Egypt and Syria. I'm far from rich, but I'm still pissed at Obama for letting tax dollars pay PBS Big Bird while he is saying we don't have enough money to pay for embassy security or enough to pay refueling costs of our Navy in the Gulf. It's probably because Michelle just had her picture taken with Big Bird that it's better to fund Big Bird or Obama care than elderly meals. I would love to know where the administration is stealing 450 million dollars for Egypt when sequestration is cutting everything we need in this country. If we are coming up with money to pay muslim brotherhood terrorists, then we need even more sequestration cuts.
Gov't spending for public TV is less than they spend for the free lunch and gymnasium memberships for your congress so find something important and EXPENSIVE to complain about....PBS and Big Bird are not an issue....duh.... and Embassy security has always been underfunded. ALWAYS. remember the IRAN embassy? How about Siagon? How about even those in Europe during the fall of Russia? duh
Your Congress?????????? Isn't it all of ours?
F Y I...... Congress is both the House and the Senate.
Why don't you take what Repugnant Presidential Candidate Romulan in context, It is not smart to borrow money ( at 7% interest) from China to fund PBS.
President Obama's Out of Context Propaganda: "Kill Big Bird"
So, davey boy, do you think it is SMART to borrow money from China at 7% Interest to fund things that are NOT absolutely ESSENTIAL. How about you go research how much that 7% interest actually is.
Opinion (Definition: Opinion - a personal view, attitude, or appraisal without knowledge, thought, or reason.)
$1 Billion US Embassy Iraq operating expense of $1 Billion per year. Same with US Embassy Tripoli Libya, US Embassy Pakistan, etc. with $1 Billion per year operating expenses.
The US Department of State determines how much of their Budget is spent on the US Consulates, US Embassies, etc..
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (regarding the US Consulate Budget at Benghazi) "Funding was not the issue". If you bother to do the actual research it was President Obama's Order of "Low US Presence at Libya" as the Issue.
The reason for the Violent Demonstrations, Violent Protests against the US was:
Due to President Obama during his Reelection Campaign, "Osama Bin Laden is Dead, GM is Alive".
In response to President Obama Inflaming the over 1.5 Billion Islamic Believers of the Islamic World saying, "Obama, Obama, We Are All Osama", "Obama Declared War Against Islam (Muslims)".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udSEcQbM308
See that white banner on the tower: "ANSAR ASHARIAA" (Ansar Al Sharia), same that President Obama supported as the Libyan Rebels, same that murdered the US Ambassador, and US Citizens at the US Consulate Benghazi, same that are currently attacking at Algeria, Mali, etc. using the weapons, ammunition, military equipment, etc. taken by the "Libyan Rebels" supported by President Obama.
Those Black Flags are the same as used at Libya by the "Libyan Rebels" supported by President Obama.
Other Nation's "Obama, Obama, We Are All Osama". Including Egypt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pJGX1JzyFc
The "Libyan Rebels" as supported by President Obama to murder US Ally President Gaddaffi the Collaborator to the Christians, Jews, Unbelievers as Al Quada Saudi Arabia (AQ), Al Quada Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al Quada Syria (AQS), Al Quada Yemen (AQY), Hezbollah, Al Quada Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), etc. became Ansar Al Shariah.
Ansar Al Shariah starts planning the attack of the nearby (to Ansar Al Shariah at Benghazi) US Consulate Benghazi in response to President Obama's "Osama Bin Laden is Dead, GM is Alive" as to coincide with the Greatest Defeat of the Great Satan (US), the 9/11 2001 Attacks, by their Holy Warrior of Islam Superstar Osama Bin Laden.
And:
(Declassifed) Outspoken General Ham, Commander US AFRICOM, Commander Operation Odessey Dawn and Operation Unified Protector, demanded that his US Military Forces rescue the US Citizens at the US Consulate at Benghazi Libya, as by slow propeller driven C-130s or US Military Helicopters less than 2 hours away during the over 7 hour attack of the US Consulate Benghazi. At the very least sending precision attack AC-130s (3 each still fully armed, loaded and fueled), or Armed MQs (Armed Drones) with Terminal Guidance accomplished by the US Ambassador's Ex USN SEALs Personal Security. Again President Obama orders "Low US Presence at Libya".
For critizing President Obama's (Inactions), President Obama demands General Ham's Letter of Resignation.
(Unclassifed) As reported by the BBC, Arabic Al Jazeera, La Monde, Das Bild, etc., as censored out of the US News, the Mission of the CIA at the US Consulate Benghazi was to locate the 20,000 portable shoulder launched SA- 7 Anti Aircraft Missiles that the "Libyan Rebels" as supported by President Obama took from the Hight Razma Military Depot near Benghazi, as stated by Al Quada to shoot down US Commerial Aircraft "To Cripple the US Economy".
Clearly YOU don't have firsthand experience (Definition Fact: Experience or Observations), as too young and just reading crap out of books (someone else's propaganda). You did not informally debrief "Mr. S" (US Military Security Advisor US Ambassador Iran). You were not at the Republic of Vietnam before the "Fall of Saigon" and after calling in airstrikes at Plei Can to slow down the NVA and Vietcong on the Ho Chi Minh Trail (Super Freeway) to buy time for the Evacuation of South Vietnam (Later Declassifed Mission, finally got my Bronze Star for Valor as downgraded to 2nd Commendation Medal "V"). You never were attached to the US Embassy at Moscow, Russia, to observe the USSR compliance with the Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaties, as well as US NAIRA Chernobyl (MSM).
davey boy: We would not be talking about this thread had we not sent a "boy" to do a mans job in the White House. It's probably just all the "boys" voting for the boys that we have bathhouse Barack as prez.
It looks like some people never get tired of blaming republicans for sending jobs to China. They seem to forget that the head of General Electric closed some of his manufacturing plants in this country to move them to China while he was appointed to the Jobs counsel by Mr. Obama. It also wouldn't surprise me if most of Congress owned shares of stock in it & a lot of other companies that have moved overseas. Most of them both Democrats & Republicans in Congress could care less about the voters well being or issues unless their up for reelection & you people are gullible enough to vote them back in so why complain now since you will do the same again.
paul manson, best thing is no one to vote at all and see what happens, probably nothing different cuz as you stated earlier they could care less about the American people. in my 51 years I have only voted once but will never vote ever again cuz ALL politicians are liars or can you prove that some of them aren't ? just please be able to back this up with FACTS.
Cuts, cuts, cuts, and sequesters, sequesters, and more and budget balancing craps and loads of them inside.
"As Kerry completed his visit, protesters and security forces clashed in Cairo's Tahrir Square, center of the revolution, as police tried to clear demonstrators and open the square to traffic"
Kerry and other politicians don't have clue of what is going on outside, they are too stupid, and or they are on the pay rolls of ungrateful and backstabbing oil rich Sunni rulers, oil companies and their lobbyists!
I still cannot believe that the liberals are still screaming about the 1%ers! There is not a battle between the 1% and the 99%, there is a battle between the 1% on the right and the 1% on the left! The 1% on the right have created their money by starting businesses and working their a$$es off! The 1% on the left have either inherited their money or have stolen it by "governing"! (Jesse Jackson Jr., anyone?) The 1% on the left are the union leaders, the high level educational establishment, the "New Energy" gurus, and the patronage vampires like Michelle Obama with her no-show hospital job before Barry became pres!
And we have money to spend on junk like this???? Here is where you will find the solution to our budget problems.
$60 millionbs ofer to Syria mercenaries, now other $60 millions to Egipto, we are "broke" were this money come in from ? this crock Kerry said from some american Enterprise (no name), uhmmm...we can call them "Narcotrafic" ?
60,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, it was $450,000,000.
$190,000,000 up front.
$17 trillion in debt and we're borrowing money to bail out the Muslim Brotherhood tyrants that taken control of Egypt. This is outrageous and insane. Obama needs to be impeached.
Totally agree with you, dougjmiller. But, the American people have voted for this catastrophe to happen. Just look around you and you can see the glowing faces of @!$%#s who can hardly spell their name and think Dumbummer is the solution to their fu_ked up lives.
@Shipwrecked:
Why are you blaming Obama and his supporters for your own @!$%#ed up life?
Ummmmmm because they are the ones phucking it up?
It is free money. Our government just reaches in the hat for yet another rabbit.
J P doesn't have a leg to stand on.
Barack's divided this country like no president before him - sad, very sad
His destruction is time released - as we will continue to see this year and in January of 2014 when ACA kicks in
I would think its becoming less divided every day. Even the dumbest lib will have to look at Obamas Grand standing about how devastating the cuts will be here in America and then open a military base in Niger, give Syrians 60 million, give Egyptians $250 million all in the same week, I almost forgot this is after his 20 million dollar vacation. My god this is repulsive!!!
uhh hey stooooopid....every vacation Bush took in Texas ( 14 ) cost an average of 38 MILLION dollars just for security and you never said a word. Why the animosity?
Oh thanks for the info! i feel better now about this ! Now its more justified! For a minute there I felt this country was in trouble! Thanks for clearing it up!
Hey where's all the Obama backers now? Surely they support this give away PLUS the new aid to the Syrian rebels. Why heck, being in very serious debt and scaring the pants off the 47% that got Obama and his regime ain't stopping the give-aways..............
texasbluedarter, ALL politicians are @!$%# ups, that includes democrats and republicans alike, anyone who believes that republicans are honest are full of @!$%#, they have ALL brought down this country but some people are too blind to see that. I trust politicians like I trust a rattlesnake !
All our politicions (REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS) should be impeached!!Other countries retaliate against their government when they behave like A$$HOLES!I wonder when the AMERICANS will start!!
Hey, daveyboy, did you see the CBO report which stated that the U.S. taxpayer paid over $1.42 BILLION in just one year for the Obama's vacations, entertainment, food, etc!? And the liberals say that there is nothing to cut!
Typical Washington DC policies. Throw away money overseas , when we are reducing spending in America. This Whitehouse and Congress SUCK!!
Quit belly achen it's Bushes fault. Just like everything that Obummer does.
My God when is this S*%$ going too stop!!! there are millions of American taxpayers that need help right here in the U.S. so knock the S#%* off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, right.......... no money to cut spending but we have $250 million to give to the Muslim Brotherhood.
I might add 18 billion to Pakistan. Notice how they love us???
Yeah. So much so that they routinely send their smelly ska.nky goons to aid the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan and kill our guys there.
It's beyond stupid.
yes, but at least Obama is killing them with drone strikes then paying for the damages...Bush just said the terroists were there and gave cash to Pakistan so they could "Take Care Of Them" which we found out meant make sandwiches for them and deliver their newspapers every morning.
Typical yahoo outcry! I bet some of the same folks crying about aid to Egypt are also gungho armchair warriors..huh? Guess where the Suez Canal is located and guess how our Mega AirCraft Carriers get to the Persian Gulf, any ideas out there? EGYPT! Now how would you folks want one of thoe big boys with all our fine men and women sunk in the Suez Straits? Stop griping about things over your pay grade.
What? How about we take a look at our own first? Government keeps taking from us to give to the illegals and other countries. Charity begins at home.
and they cross into our country through those Republican States of Arizona- TeXas- and New Mexico...even California does better border security than those 3.
What have you been smoking? California welcomes Illegals with open arms & a open checkbook.Their border isn't no where as long as the states you mention & they have Obama's cronies breathing down there neck every day & make no effort to return them to their own country. You try sneaking into Mexico or Canada & see what happens to you. Canada might welcome you but Mexico will jail you or shoot you just for good measure.
I don't agree with this policy at all. We should be doing whatever we can to extract ourselves from the entire Middle East until they modernize and can be pluralistic. As it is they are far to dangerous to try to cooperate with, as we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan. Quit throwing good money after bad and get out.
these politicians under the guidance of the prez, is playing havoc on our economy! Giving money to foreign nations, money we don't have or can't afford to give, when will Obama start taking care of Americans and Veterans before we give away the house? Impeach this fool!!!
I don't know 'why' anyone is surprised by this crap. All you have to do is look at Obama's history; where he was brought up; his close associates; where he went to school (Columbia), who his mentor is; and most importantly, his own words in his own books. He said he was going to 'transform America', and the idiots in this country voted for him without asking him 'what' did he mean by 'transforming America'. How stupid can we be?????
nameisavailable, All politicians have been giving our money away , can you prove that bush sr. and bush jr. did not give any away ? can you prove that ronald reagan never gave any away , etc, and etc ? please show us proof ?!
Wouldn't you think the government would at least worry about the appearance of this bribe??
Much less occurring , when our budget is insolvent. And we have to "tighten our belts".
This event , should turn the stomach of every American, regardless of party affiliation.
I am beyond incensed... ANOTHER 250 million on top of the 50 million he gave to Syrian rebels.. AND WE are facing cuts because of a budget crisis... are they friggin' kidding??? What does he think he has a free checkbook.... MORONS!!!!! ALL of them. When are we going to cut off these jerk politicians??????
One of the worst investments yet. Give money to a government that wants nothing to do with democracy and doesn't know how to tell the truth if it had to.....
Much better places to spend the money right here in our own backyard. Egypt, is a lost cause governed by thugs who only want the destruction of Israel. When are we going to realize that we can't negotiate with the muslim brotherhood?
I don't see what the problem is...... Progressive (Communist) Libtard Dumbocrat Mayor Bloomberg said on March 1st that the "US has an infinite amount of money".
politicker dot com/2013/03/mayor-bloomberg-dont-panic-about-the-sequester/
Actually , the ACLU (not exactly conservatives) has cases against NYC (Mayor Bloombergs city) on religious profiling & stop & frisk, (1st, 4th to start with ) .
It appears , theirs not a single bill of the Bill of Rights, that he respects. He respects only money & power.
champagnesabre, well bloomberg is right, the U.S. does have money, just not for us though.
...let's keep the $250 million here and promise to make our own painful economic reforms.............................
absolutely insane!!!! get rid of them all!!!!!!!
Obama sure has lots of money to give away....man he must be rich with all our tax money.
That is his idea! He is spreading our wealth. Remember during his first campaign??? He won't be happy until the middle class and rich are gone. Nothing left except poor peasants......waiting for his scraps. Kinda like other dictators. BTW did you hear what he said at a press conference last week. He said " I am not a dictator." NEVER have I ever heard a pres. say that before. Perhaps he dropped the word to let us know what is his real intentions. The sequester is going to furlow 387,000 civil service jobs. That means they must be furlough equivalent to 1 mon WITHOUT pay this year. How many of you liberal Obama lovers can go without a months welfare or pay???? AND PLEDGE TO GIVE Syria $60 million and now give Eygpt $250 million at our expense!!!! He definately is not protecting the USA.
joe66, they ALL ( politicians ) are filthy rich. have you heard of any politician being broke ?
Our deficit could benefit greatly if we kept the one billion Obama pledged in 2011. This Black Muslim wants to support all the terrorist nations he can. Black Muslim Brotherhood of which he is a part is just one. Some have termed Obama "intelligent." I don't think he is intelligent enough to intellectualize about the world problems. But then, he IS the problem. He is also the most Narcissistic Black Muslim you will ever see. (Me, Myself and I).....his favorite subjects.
This is why Social Security is broke - more theft!
More money to go to the Islamic terrorists. It is the tax that the Quran teaches that all non believers are suppose to pay. Americans have been paying this tax and accepting dhimmitude for years. One day the anger will grow until it explodes and Muslims throughout the world will become the targets for the rage they are creating by their tactics against European countries.
$310 million pledged to Syria and Egypt two days after the Sequester kicked in? ROFLMAO
As I siad before.....The American people need to stand up for themselves and vote out all incumbents of the House and Senate (Republican & Democrats) and ensure the new reps understand that the US belongs to the people and not a bunch of money hungry politicians that only care for themselves.
socksterlive,you can stand up for yourself and TRY to vote them out and tell new reps. whatever you want but that don't mean @!$%# to them, they have always and will always do what THEY want.
WOW John Kerry Secratary of SANTA CLAUS, 60 million to Syria , 250 million to Egypt. I can see where these politicians are struggling with budget cuts. I would definately cut school teachers and air traffic controllers before dumping the cash to the countries that hate us! Nice work Obama now blame the GOP
The $190 million is part of a $1 billion pledge by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2011 after Egypt's popular uprising.
I agree with you. What the American people should do is get rid of the Fungus in Congress, that is, the Democrats and Republicans. They are the ones who are ruining this great country. There are millions of hard working Americans struggling to make it and what does this fungus from Congress do? Give millions to a country that hates us. Want to fix the deficit? Then stop sending our paid taxes to other countries and lets build this great country to what it use to be. Lets get rid of these fart heads in Conress starting with Santa Claus John Kerry. Mr. President and Fungus of Congress. Invest our taxes on the American people, not on those who want to destroy us.
Our military is making cuts and we are giving Egypt 250 large...go figure...Obama and Kerry really don't get it...Or maybe thats where there loyalty really lies
Oh, don't forget the F16's, tanks, and other military supplies to a country run by the Muslim Brotherhood! Is this for real?
In Obama's book he said he would stand by his moo-slim brothers. But all the uninformed voters ignored that statement.
Friggin amazing, we're cutting our military...Obummers talking about cutting social security to our seniors and we're giving money away to these countries who hate America. Is this what we have to look forward to with Kerry????
That is money wasted. It would serve a much more humanitarian purpose if it were spent here in the US to help people pay their mortgages and buy food!!!!
That is money wasted. We need to thank the President and Fungus of Congress for that stupid decision.