{"id":1084,"date":"2004-07-20T00:45:57","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T05:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/blocking-foreign-aid-to-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2004-07-20T00:45:57","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T05:45:57","slug":"blocking-foreign-aid-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/blocking-foreign-aid-to-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"blocking foreign aid to saudi arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"

just a tiny little blip on the radar, and something that was quickly spun out of the news with the latest iran-scare, but i thought i’d go ahead and mention it….<\/p>\n

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House Votes to Block Aid for Saudi Arabia<\/a> [reuters, july 15, 2004]<\/div>\n

The House voted 217-191 to remove $25,000 in the $19.4 billion 2005 foreign aid bill earmarked for Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

The funds were designated for military training but approval would have triggered millions of dollars in discounts on hardware and other military training, lawmakers said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

you’ll have to engage someone significantly more involved in the political machine and creative accounting than i to understand how $25,000 can “trigger millions of dollars in discounts” and still be just $25,000…<\/p>\n

of course, saudi arabia really doesn’t need american tax dollars, but there’s much much more political capital than monetary capital in this issue. the fact that a $25,000 line-item in the congress made the news at all says a lot about the symbolic value of those dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

just a tiny little blip on the radar, and something that was quickly spun out of the news with the latest iran-scare, but i thought i’d go ahead and mention it…. House Votes to Block Aid for Saudi Arabia [reuters, july 15, 2004] The House voted 217-191 to remove $25,000 in the $19.4 billion 2005 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}