What?

[samfloor]

WHAT? The government is so broke that layoffs will soon begin. In the same newscast, we will now give $60 million in aid to Syria.
Makes no effing sense at all.

[Eddie_T]

Originally Posted by samfloor

WHAT? The government is so broke that layoffs will soon begin. In the same newscast, we will now give $60 million in aid to Syria.
Makes no effing sense at all.

Well Sam, we agree on one!

[RedJeepXJ]

60 million is a drop in the bucket

Israel ($3,075 million),
Afghanistan ($2,327 million),
Pakistan ($2,102 million),
Iraq ($1,683 million),
Egypt ($1,557 million),
Jordan ($676 Million),
Kenya ($625 million),
Nigeria ($625 million),
Ethiopia ($580 million)
,Tanzania ($531 million)

[Eddie_T]

Let's see . . . for $60 million less than $25 million would be borrowed.

Or to put it another way . . . . about 60 short to medium flights for Obama with AF-1, all a colossal waste. But each Obama flight only results in borrowing about $410K currently trying to drum up support for gun control.

[havasu]

I'd like to know why we pay these oil rich countries even one cent?

Couldn't they repay us with their black gold?

[VaporLung]

Originally Posted by havasu

I'd like to know why we pay these oil rich countries even one cent?

Couldn't they repay us with their black gold?

Because when it comes time to pay China back all that we have borrowed, we will have quite a few fingers to point to divert the attention.

[rivalarrival]

Originally Posted by VaporLung

Because when it comes time to pay China back all that we have borrowed, we will have quite a few fingers to point to divert the attention.

The vast majority of government debt is owed to Americans, not the Chinese.