The plain truth is the U.S. government is broke.
Our OFFICIAL $17+ trillion national debt is now an alarming 108% of our gross national product.
And yet Obama and both parties in Congress want to give $1 billion to Ukraine, which will not only be money down the drain, but is also in violation of our own law!
The Washington Post reports on March 4, 2014, that the Obama administration’s pledge of a $1 BILLION aid package for Ukraine has bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate.
Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate panel who visited Ukraine in December to meet with opposition figures, said that a proposal combining aid to Ukraine with sanctions against Russian officials “will enjoy broad Democratic and Republican support on the committee.”
Leaving aside the facts that the United States has a national debtmore than $17½ TRILLION (more than 108% of America’s GDP) and that the Obama administration wants to reduce the size of the U.S. military to pre-WWII levels due to budget constraints, there is another problem with the proposed $1 BILLION “aid” gift to Ukraine:
It violates a U.S. law, specifically the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
From Voice of Russia, March 11, 2014:
The Russian Foreign…
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