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Sequester Exaggerations Exposed
By Egypt Foreign Aid

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial

Original Article

Posted By:Desert Fox, 3/4/2013 8:22:27 PM

Mideast: What are we to make of the U.S. suddenly finding $250 million to spare for Egypt during a supposedly devastating sequester? Has this administration miraculously parted a sea of red ink? No one can say Secretary of State John Kerry isn´t predictable in his first weeks as the nation´s chief diplomat. The ex-Vietnam protester, who contemptuously threw his medals on the steps of the U.S. Capitol four decades ago, is giving the new post-Arab Spring Egypt under Muslim Brotherhood crony Mohammed Morsi some $250 million in immediate foreign aid, termed "economic assistance."

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: ricktutt, 3/4/2013 8:29:55 PM     (No. 9208449)

I am shocked! not


Reply 2 - Posted by: LudicrousSextus, 3/4/2013 8:33:53 PM     (No. 9208455)

No! You mean...Obama would *lie* to the public to get his way??? Surely not! (where´s a roll-eyes emoticon when ya´ need one...)

Anyone who´s watched this bozo administration literally burn public money - with results the average high-school economics student could exceed...

Has a pretty good idea the reason the guy doesn´t call himself ´Barry Sotero´ any longer...

...is the potential for his initials being constantly used to describe him. Accurately at that.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Keekng, 3/4/2013 8:34:23 PM     (No. 9208456)

Soon, everyone will realize our politicians cannot be trusted.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Pinons, 3/4/2013 8:38:14 PM     (No. 9208463)

See the following link for more exaggeration.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9908416/Airports-contradict-Janet-Napolitanos-sequester-claim.html


Reply 5 - Posted by: farmwife, 3/4/2013 8:42:43 PM     (No. 9208467)

So, is he taking the money from sick children or poor children, to give to his Muslim pals?


Reply 6 - Posted by: 4Justice, 3/4/2013 8:59:51 PM     (No. 9208478)

duuuuhh...oops! You didn´t see that! You didn´t see that! Look over here! Quick, look over here! Squirrel!! I said "SQUIRREL!!"


Reply 7 - Posted by: quark, 3/4/2013 8:59:55 PM     (No. 9208479)

The ready excuse is "this money was already distributed for this purpose".

oh. okay. go ahead and give it away. we certainly don´t need it for anything.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Becca, 3/4/2013 9:08:29 PM     (No. 9208483)

We need to expel Washington DC from the United States


Reply 9 - Posted by: rocket scientist, 3/4/2013 10:31:45 PM     (No. 9208595)

I have only one word to say about Kerry and the Obama regime - disgusting.


Reply 10 - Posted by: John c, 3/5/2013 7:01:14 AM     (No. 9208869)

Story correction. Kerry later claimed he put someone else´s medals over the fence.
An administration of phony´s, frauds and communist!


Reply 11 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna, 3/5/2013 7:27:17 AM     (No. 9208896)

Defenders of Liberty simply propose that we be allowed to live as we see fit in voluntary cooperation or solitude. The results of this Liberty are wealth and health and freedom.

Marxist always start with proclaiming their moral superiority which justifies their micromanagement of everything which leads to starvation and suffering every damn time.

This is so obvious that one wonders about the motives of all Liberty deniers.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Red Jeep, 3/5/2013 8:11:02 AM     (No. 9208964)

We can give millions away to foreigners but we can no longer have flyovers at sporting events because a 2% cut in the rate of growth in spending is too much for DC types to handle.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: bubby, 3/5/2013 8:24:27 AM     (No. 9208984)

Did John Kerry speak to Morsi in French or was it Arabic? What a phony he was in Vietnam for only 3 months and faked 3 small wounds so he could go home while everyone else had to serve a full year. I wouldn´t give one dime to Egypt after what they said about the Jews. They will use those jet fighters and tanks against Israel. We are just pissing that money away! Sorry for being so crude but it makes my blood boils to give our money to such creatures.


Reply 14 - Posted by: bnrmusa, 3/5/2013 8:55:26 AM     (No. 9209024)

If the lofo´s at the sporting events want to see flyovers, they should go talk to the Airforce or Navy recruiters.


Reply 15 - Posted by: snakeoil, 3/5/2013 8:55:31 AM     (No. 9209025)

If Egypt needs money they can put the King Tut stuff on ebay. Some people don´t understand Horse Face´s history. He was all for the Vietnam war while Lunkhead Lyndon was pres. It was when Nixon took over he discovered it was evil.


Reply 16 - Posted by: gobushcheneygo, 3/5/2013 9:02:21 AM     (No. 9209040)

Since the US has no money and has to borrow from China to give money to Egypt...let Egypt borrow the money for China themselves.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Nan, 3/5/2013 9:28:45 AM     (No. 9209098)

Aw, darn, does that mean we were once again lied to?

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual..." --Thomas Jefferson (1785)


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: Rinktum, 3/5/2013 9:40:58 AM     (No. 9209120)

The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it. - Joseph Mengele


Reply 19 - Posted by: Rubinski, 3/5/2013 9:42:22 AM     (No. 9209121)

Let´s see...Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt gets money for Abrams tanks, F-16s and other weaponry, but WE law-abiding Americans can´t be trusted with a gun and must be disarmed.

Hmmm..


Reply 20 - Posted by: LC Hoghead, 3/5/2013 11:36:32 AM     (No. 9209354)

Obama = Chicken Little "the SKY is falling, the sky is falling..."


Reply 21 - Posted by: gesundheit, 3/5/2013 12:03:10 PM     (No. 9209419)

On the one hand, we´re inflicting economic pain on the people of Iran through sanctions because Iran´s dictators won´t end their nuclear program; but, on the other hand, we´re making it easier for the dictator of Egypt to solidify his power and hurt his people by rewarding him with hundreds of millions of dollars of ´´economic assistance.´´

The only common thread in Obama´s Iran and Egyptian policies is to inflict pain on the people of both countries.


Reply 22 - Posted by: mrduc, 3/5/2013 12:23:54 PM     (No. 9209470)

So, urkel is forcing Granny and Grampy to eat dog food and reuse catheters so his mooslim brothers can be awash in $250million of US Aid?


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: horacer, 3/5/2013 12:32:45 PM     (No. 9209492)

Bribe money. We´re trying to bribe them into pretending not to be who they truly are. The opposition has said they won´t participate in the new elections in April. That means an even more radical government. Christians that are still there should think about packing.


Reply 24 - Posted by: DoktorFranken, 3/5/2013 3:27:44 PM     (No. 9209808)

"Has this administration miraculously parted a sea of red ink?"


Well, that´s MY chuckle for the day!!


Reply 25 - Posted by: Grambo, 3/5/2013 5:31:04 PM     (No. 9210026)

Kerry´s $250 million gift to Morsi´s MB is not coming from Washington, it´s being drop shipped from China.


Reply 26 - Posted by: caddyjak, 3/5/2013 8:27:57 PM     (No. 9210270)

What´s the big deal about 250 mil? Potus, Flotus and kin spent 250 mil annually for the past four years on vacations, golf and dinner parties. Perhaps Flotus could reduce her personal servant staff by a dozen or so but, for God´s sake, keep the full time make-up artist.



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