Ever wonder where you tax dollars are going?

Well, let me as you this – or better yet, can you believe this??

American Thinker Blog: Administration giving $400K to Qaddafi Family Foundations

Administration giving $400K to Qaddafi Family Foundations
Clarice Feldman
NRO’s Andy McCarthy reports that the Administration has notificed Congress that the Department of State intends to give $400K to Foundations run by members of the Qaddafi family including the son who escorted the freed Lockerbie bomber back to a hero’s welcome in Libya:

The Obama administration has notified Congress of the State Department’s intention to contribute $400,000 to foundations run by Muammar Qaddafi’s two children — $200,000 each for daughter Aisha and son Saif. Saif, you may recall, is the son who escorted the Lockerbie terrorist Abdel Baset al-Megrahi home to a hero’s welcome in Libya after President Obama sternly “warned” Qaddafi that there was to be no hero’s welcome.

Illinois Republican congressman Mark Steven Kirk (House Appropriations Subcommittee on State/Foreign Operations) has sent Obama a letter asking him to rescind the funding.

Could somebody please tell this president that this is not just Annenberg Foundation cash he’s passing out to his personal terrorist pals like Bill Ayers but American taxpayer dollars he’s doling out to the terrorist tyrant behind the murder — in just that one incident — of 270 people, including 189 Americans.

Just 40 months to go. God help us.

Qaddafi, Obama, gift, tax dollars

If I hear another thing about “too much defense spending” I’m going to hurl.

Dear friends, please check out the actual numbers:

American Thinker Blog: Graph of the Day for September 22, 2009

Graph of the Day for September 22, 2009
Randall Hoven
“The United States will be paying the price of Iraq for decades to come. The price tag will be all the greater because we tried to ignore the laws of economics — and the cost will grow the longer we remain.”

Linda J. Bilmes (former CFO at the Commerce Department, teaches at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government) and Joseph E. Stiglitz (professor at Columbia University, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, and 2001 Nobel Prize winner in economics), writing in the Washington Post.

National Defense Spending as a Percentage of GDP

Year on year Defense Spending as part of GDP

Hoven’s Index for September 22, 2009

National defense spending as a percentage of total federal outlays in 1990: 23.9%.

National defense spending as a percentage of total federal outlays in 2007: 20.2%.

Source: Calculated from data in Table 455 of the US Statistical Abstract

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