LET THEM EAT CAKE!… Our $600.00 worth of cake crumbs will hardly help citizens get through the winter.
This is a clip from an email I got today…Wow, the new COVID bill actually has money for Israel written into it. Not even kidding.
Attached is the full document. Here is a snippet that can be found on page 341.
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
2 SEC. 8072. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act
3 under the headings ‘‘Procurement, Defense-Wide’’ and
4 ‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-
5 Wide’’, $500,000,000 shall be for the Israeli Cooperative
6 Programs: Provided, That of this amount, $73,000,000
7 shall be for the Secretary of Defense to provide to the Gov-
8 ernment of Israel for the procurement of the Iron Dome
9 defense system to counter short-range rocket threats, sub-
10 ject to the U.S.-Israel Iron Dome Procurement Agree-
11 ment, as amended; $177,000,000 shall be for the Short
12 Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRBMD) program, in-
13 cluding cruise missile defense research and development