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The sequester -- -- our -- spending the US announcing plans to give 250 million dollars in aid to Egypt.
Secretary of state John -- -- Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi.
And despite calling for -- to make economic and political reforms secretary -- kind egyptians are longtime partners and friends.
But is Egypt really are frowned Cashman Vern Buchanan joins -- -- -- They're -- evening -- period he any objection to the releasing 259 dollars in us foreign aid to Egypt.
When you think about the -- questioner was on the first of march 2 days later used to -- fifty million.
They're talking about laying off 750000.
People.
It makes no sense that's why I've introduced a bill to frees speed to -- Egypt which -- two billion dollars a year.
Is in that.
True though that we use -- that the reason we give foreign -- many -- -- -- of the buyer friends and sort of put the lid on certain problems that might sort of backfire -- -- in the grander scheme well.
The fact of the matter is we give them two billion dollars a year we've given sixty billion dollars.
Over the last thirty years we're drowned in the C a debt.
We can't afford to buy or friends anymore I mean senator -- said before this for running trillion dollar deficits every year we've got sixteen half trillion dollars in debt going to.
Twenty trillion dollars we've got to slow -- down or acquitted or we're all going to be in trouble we're we're on the road to bankruptcy.
Yeah the one thing that does -- -- and -- I mean I recognize that we do have to give foreign -- for a lot of reasons to keep Franzen and then down to try to help but developed democracies in certain parts work.
But the one thing that bothers me is we came -- monitor our own spending here at home we have so much waste money going to programs that don't exist are going to people don't even dead people -- getting benefits whatever it is.
And -- -- curious as to what extent.
We can monitor what our foreign aid does yup we send over to Egypt for education if we send over for some humanitarian from notre -- mean I don't even know a lot of.
And we do for this might well we spend fifty billion dollars a year on they get all these be looked at all be reassessed.
Because again we're we're spending a trillion dollars trillions of dollars we don't have.
I get that every details of -- town hall tonight I get a lot of meetings everybody so just from a common sense standpoint.
Let's focus on our needs here it's different than -- ninety's were real surplus.
We're running these trillion dollar deficits not everybody's concern and that's why it.
You know when I first got the congress I -- constitutional balanced budget amendment like state of Florida and forty not fifty governors have.
The what what may be the problem with Egypt is that Egypt is Israel's only friend extent this a friend of Israel in the region.
And it's a very fragile government right now it's a very different government terms of our relations with compared to when Mubarak was so -- Hop and it -- it's it's extraordinarily.
Important -- we now we better not trying to sort of keep you know.
Inside the tent rather than outside attempt.
Well they dislike us -- they absolutely hate.
Israel everything I read you looked at.
In I'm concerned like a lot of other people that we just sold them we just gave -- should say six or five.
F sixteen's we're gonna give a total of twenty that seventeen what -- who live far.
Then I mean enemies hatteras and enjoy what they want to access another that's a whole another issue but -- twenty F sixteen's it would cost as a talk cost to taxpayers 340 million dollars.
They're five minutes away for a lot of miles across the tech freshman Sam has some defense contractor made those F -- summed up well no one else is making money but depends how you want to look at we give them two billion to -- the planes.
We're paying for the planes to -- doesn't listen money for the planes back here.
Well we knew we are right defense contractor who were given money to buy the -- -- Susan we get it was who is so it's.
The problems twice now but he gets back to a spent 340 million dollars for planes were weekend.
They claim we're gonna lay off 750000.
People that's a concern that I have and I think we need to look at all of our foreign -- 5950 billion dollars worth.
And in income over the -- on how Rangel and fall I totally agree and I get to figure out why Egypt needs F sixteens B visa and -- What -- the F sixteens for but that's a whole night I was looking live there either foreign miles an hour and a five minutes five minutes from Israel.
So that that should be concerning itself.
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