I am also a fed up tax payer. The overseas spending of the US gov't is complex and full of conditions and caveats, but it doesn't represent a large amount of our budget. Without a doubt the largest recipient of USA foreign Aid is Israel, and has been since the early '70s. There is no aid going to any OPEC country. We (US Gov't) enter transactions, with these countries, sometimes even for weapons and weapon systems. These countries pay full price from our defense contractors, with "export control Act caveats." Israel receives a gift for military purchases to the tune of $2.7bil and Israel receives "top shelf" hardware and technology. "Hundreds of billions" are numbers that are not in the ball park. Eygpt is the largest recipient of US aid, but only a small portion is military. Most is economic development, agric development, general governace. Aid to the Palestinians are subsistence -- food, medicine ect..