Newsmax.com wrote on June 24:

"U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, says he was dismayed that Congress passed the war supplemental appropriations bill so easily last week. 'An economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress and this administration,' Paul said during his weekly radio address Monday...

"Mocking the idea that Obama was a 'peace candidate,' Paul pointed out that his administration will be sending another $106 billion it doesn't have 'to continue the bloodshed in Afghanistan and Iraq...' Paul noted that many of his congressional colleagues who previously voted with him in opposition to every war supplemental request under the Bush administration seem to have changed their tune...

"The emergency supplemental appropriations bill sends... $660 million to Gaza... $555 million to Israel... $310 million to Egypt... $300 million to Jordan... $420 million to Mexico... $889 million to the United Nations for so-called 'peace-keeping' missions... $1 billion overseas to address the global financial crisis outside U.S. borders... [and] $8 billion to address a potential pandemic flu, which [Paul] said could result in mandatory vaccinations 'for no discernable reason other than to enrich the pharmaceutical companies'..."