It comes out of the pockets of our fellow Americans who pay income taxes. who pay taxes on bread. milk. cigarettes. travel and moving picture theater tickets. handbags. telephone calls. and other socalled luxuries. The people of New Jersey. for their share of this program. will pay $162.204.000. If this money were allowed to stay in New Jersey. instead of being extracted for the use of Greece. the rest of Europe. and Arabian refugees in Palestine. it could do an immeasurable amount of good at home. By application of a formula. which I believe to be reasonably correct. we can break down this New Jersey share of the funds and localize them to a point where the problem is brought into sharp focus. We are getting anesthetized when we talk of billions. and we cannot conceive that the money is real. or that it belongs to us. but when we say that the share of the cost of this foreign program alone will cost the people of Atlantic County $4.704.000. the people of Cumberland County $2.109.000. the people of Cape May County $1.135.000. our people will understand that they are chipping in $8.000.000 for their share of the present annual cost of the foreignassistance program alone.
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