What we get for $2 billion a year in aid to Egypt
From the excellent Gonzalo Lira: | Years Hosni Mubarek has been in power?
30.
Average yearly U.S. aid to Egypt during his presidency?
$2 billion.
Percentage of Egyptian GDP that aid amounts to?
1%.
Average amount of that aid going to the Egyptian military?
$1.75 billion.
Number of M-1A1 Abrams tanks the U.S. has sold Egypt?
1,200
Number of F-16 fighter jets the U.S. has sold Egypt?
260.
Average per capita income of Egyptians?
$2,758 per year.
How many Egyptians tortured and repressed by the Mubarek regime?
Unknown.
Turning a nation of 79 million into raging anti-Americans?
Priceless.
Posted by: Steve White 2011-01-30 |