James Traficant: “let me see if I can understand this: America gives Israel $3 billion a year in foreign aid. America gives Egypt another…”

“let me see if I can understand this: America gives Israel $3 billion a year in foreign aid. America gives Egypt another $2.4 billion a year in foreign aid, $5.4 billion, and yesterday Uncle Sam gave $5 million to pay the wages of the Palestinian police. Five million dollars for Palestinian police; unbelievable, Congress. We have got 25,000 murders a year in America, drive-by killings, cities on fire, police departments pleading for help, and Congress keeps giving the same old tune: ``We don't have any money for all these problems in America.'' But $5 million for Palestinian police? Shame, Congress. The trouble with the Congress of the United States of America is Congress is spending too much time worrying about the Mideast and forgetting about the Midwest in America, and the South, and the North, and the West, and the East. I say to my colleagues, ``Beam me up. I'm not for one more dime going anywhere while America has problems like we have.'' Think about it.”