Congress approves sale of Fighter Jets

F-16

US Approves F-16 Fighter Jet Sale to Turkey, F-35s to Greece

The Biden administration has approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey following the Turkish government’s ratification this week of Sweden’s membership in NATO.

The move is a significant development in the expansion of the alliance, which has taken on additional importance since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The State Department notified Congress of its approval of the $23 billion F-16 sale to Turkey, along with a companion $8.6 billion sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to Greece, late Friday.

The move came just hours after Turkey deposited its “instrument of ratification” for Sweden’s accession to NATO with Washington, which is the repository for alliance documents and after several key members of Congress lifted their objections.

F-35

Read about it...

Postcard from Greece

Comment Up

Described by the sender as my "Nirvana" as the sunsets are long lasting with a red sky show.

Quote of the Day - Allen West - Nero fiddled while Rome burned

Comment Up

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. He has proposed a 90 percent income tax on “top earners.” When Senator Obama was running for the presidency in 2008 he claimed it better when we “spread the wealth around.” Of course these two astute gents are referring to the top one percent who are currently paying nearly 40 percent of overall income taxes in the United States. The estimate is that the top 10 percent of wage earners in America pay nearly 70 percent of all income taxes while there is almost 50 percent who only pay 3 percent — many receiving refunds.

This is set amid the backdrop of what is happening in Greece. There the left wing government of young Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has just defaulted on a 1.6 billion Euro (approximately $1.66 billion) loan from the International Monetary Fund. And on Sunday, based upon PM Tsipras’ encouragement, Greece voted no to any austerity measures to assist in regaining its economic stability. This is the dream world of progressive socialist economics in that we can spend all the money we want in order to promise everything to everyone and someone else is responsible for the supplying of the monetary resources to bring the pipe dreams to fruition.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The Greeks cheered Sunday. And President Obama sings Amazing Grace.

~ Allen West

Read the rest of the brilliant article by Allen West at TownHall.com

The Impending Consequences of Liberal Progressive Socialist Economics

America's Public Debt

We look at Greece and shake our heads, but economists tell us -- in spite of our wealth, our resources, our status -- we're on that Pantheon path.  And just think, Bernie and Hillary and the socialists have no problem creating more of it.

Read more... at Sunshine News