{"id":12655,"date":"2013-07-31T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=12655"},"modified":"2013-07-31T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T00:00:25","slug":"lets-end-all-foreign-aid-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2013\/07\/31\/lets-end-all-foreign-aid-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s END ALL Foreign Aid NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Obama and his cronies in Washington continue to send BILLIONS of your tax money in foreign aid to countless countries. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With recent reports showing four out of five Americans are near poverty \u2013 between joblessness and a welfare application \u2013 it&#8217;s more evident than ever the American dream is on it&#8217;s last leg as Barack Obama and his statist allies in Congress use your tax money to fund their imperial projects. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bad enough President Obama keeps sending our money overseas but it\u2019s especially insulting when he uses your tax dollars to support those who burn our flag, attack our embassies, imprison and even murder our citizens. <\/p>\n<p>As major cities go bankrupt; bridges collapse and roads deteriorate; political elites and special interests in Washington continue to send more of our money to buy tanks and fighter jets for foreign countries like Egypt. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, after mobs hit the streets, protested and burned our flag, Egypt\u2019s \u201cdemocratically\u201d elected President Mohamad Morsi was ousted through a military coup. <\/p>\n<p><strong>And under current law, under section 7008 of the Foreign Assistance Act, the U.S. is prohibited from providing foreign aid to nations that experience military coups.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>But you can\u2019t count on the statists to uphold current law \u2013 unless you put pressure on them. <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Senator Rand Paul will be introducing an amendment that could be the beginning of the end of foreign aid starting with Egypt \u2013 saving taxpayers BILLIONS dollars.<\/p>\n<p>But he needs you to stand with him. <\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s why it\u2019s critical you show your support and IMMEDIATELY call your Senator (202) 224-3121 and demand they vote for Senator Paul\u2019s amendment and uphold our current rule of law. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is unacceptable for our government to even consider giving one more penny of our money for the purpose of expanding the American Empire when so many here at home are struggling just to get by. <\/p>\n<p>So please IMMEDIATELY call your Senator (202) 224-3121 and demand they support Senator Paul\u2019s amendment and uphold our current rule of law.<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: The <a href=\"http:\/\/constitution.org\/abus\/le\/miac-strategic-report.pdf\">MIAC Report<\/a> has declared that anyone who is against all foreign aid is a potential terrorist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama and his cronies in Washington continue to send BILLIONS of your tax money in foreign aid to countless countries. With recent reports showing four out of five Americans are near poverty \u2013 between joblessness and a welfare application \u2013 it&#8217;s more evident than ever the American dream is on it&#8217;s last leg as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-legislation","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12658,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655\/revisions\/12658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}