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I don't know about you... But if my country were able to spend 75 billion dollars helping foreign countries, I'd sure hope they'd use some of it to solve problems here at home too...
Problem is that the more money we spend on social services, the more expensive they become because they're all owned by corporations that are maximizing profit.
Something something 'seize the means of production.'
Has that already happened with fire departments? Sure someone is probably corrupt, but they do a great job of keeping my house not on fire for free. I'd love M4A, even if middlemen skim off the top in the short term.
Fire departments are funded by local taxes or staffed by volunteers.
There isn't a massive for-profit firemen corporation that controls departments across the US, to the best of my knowledge.
It wasn't massive by today's standards, but we did actually used to have for profit fire departments funded by insurance.
US gets to do very real long term damage to a hostile nation without risking any American lives? All while gaining battlefield knowledge and liquidating aging munitions? Sounds like a great investment to me.
Yea, FUCK affordable health care and giving teachers proper wages
The funding for Ukraine is not the thing holding those things back. Republican regressive politicians are the thing holding those things back. We have plenty of money to do both.
Oh yeah? Are there any Democrats in power pushing to do those things? Or are they only pushing for more war. Neither party gives a shit about pay for teachers or healthcare. All they both want is more bombs and more death.
Are you blaming funding Ukraine for the lack of funding for healthcare or teacher pay? Because I think we all know the $$$ might as well be Monopoly money at this point and the US could fund these things if it wanted.
You spout a popular right wing talking point. It stems from the misinformed belief that governments don’t budget and everything is in one giant pot of money and that governments can only do one thing at a time.
Countries don’t work this way. Your argument is meaningless and incorrect.
Ah yes, affordable healthcare and living wages, classic right wing talking points.
Name one other country with that large of a military budget
Name any other country with that large of a per-capita healthcare budget. The US has the money, it just all goes into the pockets of insurers. Your issues aren't budgetary.
Name one instance in your lifetime where Republicans have fought for affordable health care.
You've drank so much USA koolaid that you can't see any other way that a country could possibly be run
Lmao I’m not the person you were arguing with. Take a deep breath before commenting.