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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (68366)	5/20/2006 7:38:48 PM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 362852

"As part of the 1979 Camp David peace accords Egypt signed with Israel, the United States agreed to send Cairo $3 billion in aid annually". I guess money can buy a lot if in suitably large transfusions. Let's see: $3 bil x 26 years = $78 bil divided by say, 300 mil Americans = $260 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. to BUY Egypt's friendship! It would be the rare American who would know that their government was spending THEIR tax funds for buying friendship.... But of course these days we don't do that, we just borrow money from foreigners, debase the currency, stiff the foreigners and destroy the savings of the aged on fixed incomes.And do the aged Americans KNOW this is what their government is doing to them, among other things, to BUY friendship? NO Will they, in due course understand their plight? Why yes! Will they understand how they got to that situation? No, not really, for the most part. And is that the end of the story...? NO. There is the matter of aid to Israel. According to the site below, the cost to the U.S. for that is a little higher, specifically $134,791,507,200 washington-report.org Also we spend billions, rising to the trillion to try to seize and control the Arab oilfields. If all this money (paid publicly) was factored into the price of a gallon of gas, would we be paying $10 a gallon at the pump? Is this what the scam is--subsidize the oil industry by using the public purse and the militia as its servant and then deliver a cheap gallon of gas at the pump (relatively speaking)? You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, Skip out for beer during commercials, Because the revolution will not be televised. The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox In 4 parts without commercial interruptions. The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary. The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia. The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal. The revolution will not get rid of the nubs. The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother. There will be no pictures of you and Willie May pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run, or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance. NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32 or report from 29 districts. The revolution will not be televised. There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers in the instant replay. There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers in the instant replay. There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process. There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving For just the proper occasion. Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and women will not care if Dick finally gets down with Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people will be in the street looking for a brighter day. The revolution will not be televised. There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news and no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose. The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb, Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth. The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will not be right back after a message bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people. You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl. The revolution will not go better with Coke. The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath. The revolution will put you in the driver's seat. The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, will not be televised, will not be televised. The revolution will be no re-run brothers; The revolution will be live. (Gil Scott-Heron) Namaste! Jim