As a result of sequestration budget cuts in America, many important programmes, especially for the poor, will be unfunded.

No cuts for Israel?

Among other things, 600,000 low-income women and children could be thrown off the Special Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.

The USDA will treat 200,000 fewer acres for hazardous fuel contamination, leading to an increased risk of wildfires.

Around 70,000 children will lose access to Head Start preschool services, with layoffs of 14,000 people nationwide.

There will be reduced funding for the health and well being of more than 373,000 seriously mentally ill adults and children, which could result in increased hospitalizations and homelessness.

About 125,000 individuals and families have been put at risk of becoming homeless, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimated.

An additional 100,000 formerly homeless people might be removed from emergency shelters or other housing arrangements because of the cuts, according to HUD.

These represent only a few of many programmes to suffer from funding cuts. No cuts for Israel?

Let’s look at the figures for some of the losers:

A total of $86 million has been slashed from key women’s health programs that primarily serve lower-income women.

$8 million from the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program,

$24 million from the Title X family planning and reproductive services;

$50 million from the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant.

$20 million from the recently reinstated Violence Against Women Act

$9 million from the Family Violence Prevention Act

$424 million from Head Start and Early Head Start programs, which provide health and education services to low-income families.

$600 million is set to be cut from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants and Children.

A total of 1 billion, 221 million for these programs alone.

But wait! AIPAC’s campaign in Congress calls for:

Efforts to provide Israel with its full $3.1 billion in military aid for 2013 and 2014, as well as $211m in additional funding for the Iron Dome missile-defence system.

The Washington Post acknowledges that there may be consequences within the American public “that attempts to exempt Israel from painful budget cuts while the rest of the U.S. was forced to absorb them would cause a political backlash.”

Concurrent with the AIPAC meeting in Washington D.C., Congress is proposing a resolution which states “If Israel were compelled to take military action in self defence, the U.S. government should stand with Israel and supply military and diplomatic support.” This would create additional costs.

The Jewish Week calls AIPAC’s gambit to exempt these cuts a “very risky strategy at a time when millions of Americans will be feeling the bite of the sequestration debacle, which “could easily backfire and damage Israel far more than any cuts in its very generous grant aid program.”

James M Wall asks, “Is the U.S. Congress so beholden to AIPAC and so insensitive to the impact on programs like Head Start for children, that it will give Israel’s self-designated “defensive needs” priority over US domestic needs?”

If the U.S. congress yields to the wishes of AIPAC to exempt Israel from budget cuts at the expense of needy Americans, those in Congress should not be proud to be Americans.
http://theinternetpost.net/2013/03/26/the-social-cost-of-israeli-aid/

how about cuts for arab brotherhood thas where the real cuts should be. figures attack Israel. Fact 1 GOD himself said there will always be the poor and the destitute. WE still need to defend ourselves so by defending Israel we defend ourselves .Mine was edited out as it wasnt pc. Yet he was allowed to attack Isreal it said .. Why not cut the muslim brotherhood millions /billions of dollars from the government.

I have an idea. Tell all the transplants who moved to Israel to move to America. If they are so afraid of their neighbors that surround them, and they want America's protection then tell all the Jews to move here and become tax paying citizens of this country.

That way, they can contribute and also be protected.

Give that small patch of land they call "Israel" back to the natives that were born there.

Please provide me a figure as to the amount of aid we give our "Muslim brothers"

figures f16s given to them m16 add that up. thats easy enough and being Barry is muslim. We are suppose support Israel for supporting Israel is supporting us.

Look it up it is Israel to begin with. Arabs wants what isnt theirs. They dont want to simply get the land . They want to destroy all of the JEWS and CHRISTIANS alike.

You don't make any sense at all.

President Barack Obama, as far as I know is not "Muslim." In fact, I'm fairly certain he has the Jewish gene in his lineage.

So some people say.

That is so much hate speech and propaganda I suspect.

I don't believe it.

I would have to interview every single Muslim on the planet and they would have to confirm that statement for me to believe such wide ranging assumptions.

barrac hussien obama... spent his childhood in muslim schools... socialist leader in college, but not muslim....
i'm sure yall are happy now, you got another jew bashing thread to have your fun with...

A ridiculously wrong interpretation of scripture made up by protestants and perpetuated by neocons and various special interest groups/lobbies like AIPAC. The old covenant made with Abraham was extended to all humanity through Christ.

oh i see... Jews hate, but the muslims are "peace and love"...

maybe your right about your reality theories, you seem to not be in the same reality as the rest of the world...

i agree, the should stop all payments to all counties except Israel... then they could start giving the Israelis a little bit more, they need it for defense for all the crazy muslims that surround them...

I am quite sure that President Barrak Obama is probably an atheist and has probably got Jewish genes on his Mother's side.

This thread is not about bashing Jews Mightymoe. That is all in your head.

It is about ... um... how about we stop giving money to Israel, at least while our own country is going broke. DUH!

There were Muslims all over the place when the Rothschilds got the stupid idea to transport all the Jews into their midst.

Oh yeh, THAT was a great idea.

Not.

i don't know who decided what, but your right, it wasn't the smartest idea anyone ever had...

The Balfour Declaration (dated 2 November 1917) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

I am learning that everyone is in their own reality. That would include YOU.

I also never said that "Jews hate" or that Muslims are "peace and love" so stop attributing your delusional reality to mine.

The natives weren't there in that small patch of land. They were in Jordan until Jordan decided to kick them out. Just like today they had no homeland then and have none today.

Who has no "homeland?"

Yes, who?