From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 12:39:38 MDT
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 06:09:37PM -0700, Brendan Coffey wrote:
> $1.3B is not a "tie" with $1.98B. That's a 52.3% difference. The US's
> aid to Israel in 2003 will be $2.1B. And $12B is over 3x the US'
> total foreign military aid allocation. Damien is conflating total
> foreign aid figures with foreign military aid figures. Confusion aside,
I thought we were *talking* about total foreign aid.
> > > > Egypt is the single biggest recipient of Foriegn aide from the US,
> > > > some 12 billion per year, yet it is also a totalitarian. It was one
> > > Where'd you get *that*? $12 billion is close to the USA's total
> > > foreign aid budget, and Israel is always described as the largest
> > > recipient. With Egypt second: $3 billion for Israel to $2 billion for
> > > Egypt. Some web
See? Biggiest recipient of foreign aid, then I talk about total foreign aid,
with the numbers of Israel and Egypt which I've always heard. The later
numbers seemed low, which I guess is explained if people switched to only
talking about military aid.
-xx- Damien X-)
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