WASHINGTON DC: Northern California Representative Wally Herger (RRio Oso) criticized legislation adopted by the House to provide more than $800 million in economic aid to Poland and Hungary as “short sighted, misguided and ill-timed While all Americans support the movement toward greater freedom in Poland and Hungary, I question whether unconditional economic aid is the answer”, Herger noted.
“Poland currently has a $40 billion foreign debt that they seem highly unlikely to be able to repay. With the serious domestic needs we face here at home, such as finding an affordable solution to the problem of health care for our senior citizens, I think throwing even more money at Eastern Europe is a mistake, “Herger said. “For forty years, American tax payers have had to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to NATO to defend against aggression for War saw Pact nations such as Poland and Hungary. I don’t believe it is the American taxpayer’s responsibility to bail out the Soviet Bloc nations who have turned their economies into wastelands,”Her gerheyd Mayoral poll Sikhs.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 27, 1989
