Open email to Rep. Neugebauer, and Senators
Cornyn and Cruz (all Texas):
Dear Rep. Neugebauer and Senators Cornyn and Cruz,
The news is full of money for Egypt this morning. The question being whether we continue to send Egypt $2 billion year in aid, or do we cut it off. Fox News says the Congress seems to be equally divided on the question.
I strongly encourage you, as our congressional representatives for Texas, to vote against sending any monetary or military aid to Egypt.
Egypt has been blessed with fertile land, adequate water from the Nile, and an extensive growing season. From the time of the Pharaohs, Egyptians have been able to support themselves agriculturally. With later construction of the Suez Canal and its eventual grant to Egypt, Egypt now has a quite adequate amount of foreign funding from tolls. If Egyptians were now running their country as they had for the last 2000 years, they would not need a dime from us or anybody else.
For some unknown reason, Americans and the American government seems to get caught up in the word "democracy", and we don't even know what it means. The US was established as a Republic, and the elements of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights describe what a Republic is. Over the years, we have significantly deviated from those elements. The changes have been basically to give more responsibility to people, who have no interest in government operations and control, and because of their lack of interest also are completely inept at making any judgments of how government should operate. This development has occurred in many other countries of the world in one form or another, and is called "socialism", whether one likes to apply it to the US are not.
As a so-called "free" people according to our Constitution, we have the right to determine our own form of government. Do we have some special attribute that applies only to us? Don't the Egyptians have a similar right, without foreign meddling?
I have written previously on the ridiculousness of nation building and our complete failure as a government over at least the past 20 years. Why do we continue to do that? In the case of Egypt, should we be spending an additional $2 billion year to build that nation into something which we think is a so-called "democracy", and considering also what I have said earlier concerning their 2000-year ability to handle their own affairs.
From a US economic point of view, Egypt has little meaning to us, except for the Suez Canal through which passes large quantities of oil to feed our economy. It is important that control of the Suez Canal does not fall into enemy hands, which would restrict shipments of oil from the Middle East to the US. However, that does not seem to be the case at the present time.
With respect to whether Egypt needs a temporary hand up, they have a number of fairly rich neighbors, who have been selling oil at high prices to the US for a great number of years and could well afford to lend or grant Egypt sufficient funds to overcome any short-term hurdles. I strongly suggest that you let the neighbors do it, and we stay out of it.
It would be ridiculous for the US to continue borrowing money for the purpose of grants to Egypt or anybody else for that matter.
I strongly suggest you vote against any foreign funding, including Egypt, unless it can be directly linked to some economic advantage to the US. I don't want to hear more about a ridiculous notion of saving the world for democracy. I do want to hear that countries and peoples have the right to self-determination, unless they trespass on others.
Dear Rep. Neugebauer and Senators Cornyn and Cruz,
The news is full of money for Egypt this morning. The question being whether we continue to send Egypt $2 billion year in aid, or do we cut it off. Fox News says the Congress seems to be equally divided on the question.
I strongly encourage you, as our congressional representatives for Texas, to vote against sending any monetary or military aid to Egypt.
Egypt has been blessed with fertile land, adequate water from the Nile, and an extensive growing season. From the time of the Pharaohs, Egyptians have been able to support themselves agriculturally. With later construction of the Suez Canal and its eventual grant to Egypt, Egypt now has a quite adequate amount of foreign funding from tolls. If Egyptians were now running their country as they had for the last 2000 years, they would not need a dime from us or anybody else.
For some unknown reason, Americans and the American government seems to get caught up in the word "democracy", and we don't even know what it means. The US was established as a Republic, and the elements of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights describe what a Republic is. Over the years, we have significantly deviated from those elements. The changes have been basically to give more responsibility to people, who have no interest in government operations and control, and because of their lack of interest also are completely inept at making any judgments of how government should operate. This development has occurred in many other countries of the world in one form or another, and is called "socialism", whether one likes to apply it to the US are not.
As a so-called "free" people according to our Constitution, we have the right to determine our own form of government. Do we have some special attribute that applies only to us? Don't the Egyptians have a similar right, without foreign meddling?
I have written previously on the ridiculousness of nation building and our complete failure as a government over at least the past 20 years. Why do we continue to do that? In the case of Egypt, should we be spending an additional $2 billion year to build that nation into something which we think is a so-called "democracy", and considering also what I have said earlier concerning their 2000-year ability to handle their own affairs.
From a US economic point of view, Egypt has little meaning to us, except for the Suez Canal through which passes large quantities of oil to feed our economy. It is important that control of the Suez Canal does not fall into enemy hands, which would restrict shipments of oil from the Middle East to the US. However, that does not seem to be the case at the present time.
With respect to whether Egypt needs a temporary hand up, they have a number of fairly rich neighbors, who have been selling oil at high prices to the US for a great number of years and could well afford to lend or grant Egypt sufficient funds to overcome any short-term hurdles. I strongly suggest that you let the neighbors do it, and we stay out of it.
It would be ridiculous for the US to continue borrowing money for the purpose of grants to Egypt or anybody else for that matter.
I strongly suggest you vote against any foreign funding, including Egypt, unless it can be directly linked to some economic advantage to the US. I don't want to hear more about a ridiculous notion of saving the world for democracy. I do want to hear that countries and peoples have the right to self-determination, unless they trespass on others.
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