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To: SilentZ who wrote (731367)	8/6/2013 8:39:40 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575535

silentz' "news" - Ifill, Woodruff to co-anchor 'NEWSHOUR'...

To: SilentZ who wrote (731367)	8/6/2013 8:41:38 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575535

Bubba won't touch Weiner...

To: SilentZ who wrote (731367)	8/6/2013 9:13:47 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575535

Z, I've said over and over again that we should withhold aid to Egypt and take a neutral stance in the conflict, then consider resuming aid if and when the new Egyptian government takes hold. How many times do I have to repeat it for you? As for how much the aid matters in the context of sequestration, let's put it another way since you seem to be in incredible denial. We currently give $1.5B/year in aid to Egypt. Let's say it costs $100K/year to get another teacher. ($60K salary, $20K benefits, $20K materials for classroom). That would be an additional 15,000 teachers that we could hire with that money. And that would be something that Obama would LOVE to take credit for. You see why it matters and why you look rather shallow pretending that it doesn't? Any way you slice it, that's a significant amount of money that is going into the mess in Egypt. Something that significant needs to have a good reason. Pretending that Egypt didn't just undergo a coup d'etat is not a good reason. (That seems to be yet another point I have to repeat for you.) Tenchusatsu