Representative Sessions 03_25_08 Foreign aid as I remarked on it.

Congressman Pete Sessions Park Central VII 12750 Merit Drive, Suite 1434 Dallas, Texas 75251-1229 Robert Johnson 03/25/2008 Dear Congressman Sessions: I observe that in your periodic e-mails, you regularly inform us of budgetary issues. I have a little information that is not necessarily news but I hope to use it for a suggestion. Egypt gets more foreign aid than other Middle Eastern countries, Iraq excepted. I suspect that if another Middle Eastern country (Israel) found out they would seek more aid themselves. If we consider foreign aid to be an elastic expenditure, this is a problem, and the information becomes a state secret to be traced back to its source if Israel finds out. If the foreign aid budget were a fixed or cost-of-living adjusted budget, I believe that would generate a new political problem for those seeking aid such as students face every year when they apply to renew student grants and loans. My question is: Isn't that a good thing, and wouldn't it do good things for our own budget if foreign aid were inflexible. For example it would make foresight and planning part of the application process. The idea of presenting such a suggestion to a political audience daunts me, but I understand that your office can acquaint me with reasons if I have presented a common misconception. As a post script, I would like to assure you that the FAIR TAX PLAN was one I voted for, so that you may be aware of it in future - it might make a good survey question. Neal Boortz's book was very informative and I endorse doing away with the IRS. They are people and it sounds inhumane, but I expect that businesses coming home from overseas could employ them as accountants and auditors. It was in this book that I learned that Sino dollars do not all reside in the hands of the Chinese state, and I infer that Chinese labor is as underpaid as labor anywhere. Yours Sincerely, Robert Johnson