by Peter A. Belmont / 2011-12-01

Recent Essays (All Topics)

• "Citizens United" creates a new permanent aristocracy in the USA

•Dear liberal American Jews: Please don't betray Israel

•The "1%" is really the "0.0000063%"

•Israel Firsters, Oil Firsters, Banks Firsters, War Firsters are all part of the American Oligarchic System

•Drop the insult "Israel-Firster" for the more important "One-Percent-Firster"

•Israel/Palestine was clearly heading to 2012 in 1994

•Time for a New American Revolution

•Time for the USA to be reality-based rather than faith-based.

•Iran believes it can cut off OIL sales to EU

•Constitutional Amendment to combat "regulatory capture", "electoral capture", and Citizens United

A policy of “zero-base foreign aid” [1] would be no threat to Israel, because USA’s gifts to Israel are not foreign aid at all, but rather black-mail or bribes, you know. The USA gives Israel $3B/yr and, in return, AIPAC, etc., give our politicians (of both parties) a total of (who knows) $500M (?).

What a deal! USA pols give away taxpayers’ money (I estimate) $3B/yr to get back (to the pols, of course!, not to the taxpayers) (I estimate) $0.5B.

Be a lot cheaper to have tax-payers directly fund elections, only cost the tax-payers $0.5B to give $0.5B to the political parties.

Better yet, we could demand that all political advertising on radio or TV (including cable and satellite) be produced FREE by the broadcasting companies on a 50-50% basis (leaving, so sorry, all third parties on their own in the cold of the internet and email and tweets) during the 60 days before any election. After all, Americans own our own airwaves (and cable franchising licensing, etc.), don’t we?

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[1] Republican candidates for president briefly endorsed “zero-base foreign aid” until Democrats pointed out that this appeared to threaten the always-sacrosanct $3B/yr USA gift to Israel.

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