Trump Wants $200 Billion More For Iran War. Here's What Else That Could Fund.

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Trump Wants $200 Billion More For Iran War. Here's What Else That Could Fund. - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Forget what that could fund. $200 billion with 400 million Americans means that every single American chose to throw $500 to this war. It’s like you found $500 on the street, you picked them up, and you sent them to Washington for the money to transform into rockets that rain down on school children.

Every. Single. American. Chose to take $500 they could have spent on food or credit debt or education or rent or whatever your priority. And instead they chose to turn it into big kabooms half a world away. Big kabooms that make everything at home more expensive. From grandma in a wheelchair to barely born, including legal and illegal immigrants. People living in tents didn’t get their $500, people facing medical bankruptcy didn’t get their $500.

It’s disgusting what kind of garbage this government is willing to spend money on while it calls affordability, a hoax.

remind me when every single statesian pressed a button that said “bomb iran”.

you need a refresher on direct, proximal, indirect causation, but for causation, etc. plenty of statesians did everything they could short of criminal activity to prevent this, but according to you they pulled the trigger themselves.

The last time Congress refused to fund a war, the Republicans just sold weapons to our bitterest enemy (Iran, ironically), so they could use the profits to fund their illegal war in Nicaragua.

Maybe Trump can ask all his billionaire friends to chip in, a billion a piece. A few of them can pay more, a lot more.

The CIA in funding the contras in nicaragua was buying cocaine and selling it to LA street gangs, and taking guns down to south america to sell. They also sold the street gangs some military grade weapons.

It’s not a one off, just one they got caught on. We are all familiar with Air America flying heroin they made in the golden triangle to dope up vietnam soldiers that were unruly.

It’s not like the government found the money either, they are borrowing it. 34 trillion in the red and they are spending like the rapture is right around the corner. As we all should have known they would.