• HousePanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com
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    1 year ago

    While this is intended to be funny, it is really not because there is more than just a little truth to it. The MIC is more important to Amurica than anything else.

  • protist@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I have to disagree here, because the US can easily afford everything listed here in addition to the fighter jet. The fighter jet isn’t responsible for a lack of spending in all these programs, it’s the Republican Party, which doesn’t want to see one cent of tax money go toward helping a poor person

    • thatgirlwasfire@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      While i am not for the MIC,Ii also disagree that the US can easily afford it. The government has been running an ever increasing deficit because they can’t afford it.

      • abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Those deficits are largely due to (GOP) massively cutting taxes for the wealthy (but remember how some of us got back a few crumbs? Muh taxes!) so now the government is underfunding everything except the military. Freedom!

  • heavy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    ITT: Folks who haven’t had the privilege of witnessing wasteful government spending behind the curtain of the DoD

  • f1xxm4n@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Well, if investment into your defense does not sound right to you, try selling the front doors of your apartments and purchasing something useful for your home instead.

  • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    The only thing I see wrong is the job opportunity cuts, the US military is the largest make work program since the new deal and the WPA.

    • Yendor@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      You could probably add the Medicare cuts to that.

      The US government already spends 2x as much on healthcare (per capita) as the next OECD country, and about 4x the OECD average. The problem is the for-profit system, with everyone (hospitals, insurers and pharmaceuticals) taking such massive slices.

      What makes it even more embarrassing, is that the US is almost at the bottom of the OECD for health outcomes, and life-expectancy is going backwards.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Twice as much taxes per capita is spent on healthcare and people still have to pay for private coverage over that!