Tax Payer Dollars Going Over Seas

J.J. Jackson* | May 28, 2005

On Thursday, President Bush pledged $50 million dollars in aide to Abbas and the Palestinians for new housing and other assorted projects in Gaza. According to ReliefWeb, the funds will be used to “improve the quality of life of the Palestinians living in Gaza where poverty and unemployment are very high.”

I guess the question is why is there high poverty and unemployment, and how does President Bush justify forced charity of the American people under threat of the government’s guns?

Throughout the years, the radical elements among Palestinians have been waging war with Israel and for many years under Arafat’s rein the Palestinians protected those radical elements. So Israel fought back, often times leveling entire neighbors to get at those that were being protected. If only some other leaders would be so forceful maybe we wouldn’t be where we are today with radical Muslim terrorists fighting representative governments around the world.

For the most part, I do not believe that the majority of Palestinians ever had any problems with Israel. But when you live in a controlled police state run by terrorists sometimes you are left with little choice, some would argue. I say you always have a choice.

The Palestinians have a long way to go in rebuilding trust after years of guerilla warfare against Israel. And more importantly federal dollars that could be used here at home to improve roads and infrastructure is being sent over seas against the roles of the power granted to the Federal Government by the Constitution. There are plenty of relief organizations that operate on voluntary contributions that should be filling this role and President Bush should NOT be promising this money and our resources.

When the Tsunami struck Southeast Asia I had no problem with the federal government sending truly “emergency” aid to those people affected. Sending an Air Craft Carrier to provide fresh water was fine because that was a crisis and people’s lives were at stake from an act of God and only the Federal Government had the resources and the power to act that quickly and with the required manpower. But for the Palestinians, their situation is largely due to their own actions. And they should be taken care of with a plea to both United States and international aid agencies and not money which we are forced to pay the government each year at the end of the barrel of the government’s guns.

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