On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Michael--
>
> There are three questions you need to ask about money like this (probably
> closer to $6 billion than $3 billion per year):
> 1) Have successive American administrations been simply delusional for
> more than thirty years about the usefulness of spending these amounts?
>
> 2) Are the anti-Semites right -- the machinations of the Jewish lobby
> are so irresistible that it can extort such sums? (And if so why didn't
> its writ run in '56?)
>
> 3) Is it simply a bad conscience about what the Nazis did sixty years
> ago that keeps America forking over these colossal sums year in and year
> out?
>
> If the answer to all of these questions is No (and I think it is), then
> you have to explain the subventions.
I entirely agree on both counts, C.G. It is no, and it does need to be explained. See my original post on this subject, under the Subject line "Re: Huh?"
Michael