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$900,000,000 per day
by dmschulman 8y ago
$900,000,000 per day
- mcny 8y agoMaybe we can write this on a bus : We spend $900M a day on war. Lets fund our medicare instead. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-news-vote-leave-director-dominic-cummings-leave-eu-error-nhs-350-million-lie-bus-a7822386.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest... https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/8c92ccc4-ff8d-4620-82b7-9f4158d3e710.jpg https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/8c92ccc... https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/ea01efb7-082b-4130-8ebd-ad910e68b075.jpg https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/ea01efb...
- onomonomono 8y agoYou do realize we spend $1,500M ($1.5 billion) on Medicare a day, yes?
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- prolikewh0a 8y agoThat $1.5 billion goes to saving lives and curing people, the $900 million goes to ending lives illegally. We could funnel that $900 million into Medicare and help a whole lot more people.
- CapricornNoble 8y agoThat's a pretty narrow viewpoint, and the military spending could be spun equally disingeniously: "The $900M goes to vocational training, employment, and cutting-edge equipment for a large slice of physically-fit working age Americans. The $1500M predominantly goes to squeezing an additional 6 months of life expectancy out of retirees and the disabled." So which of those is really adding more value to the nation?
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- onomonomono 8y agoWow, accusing our military of being murderers on September 11th.
- c0nducktr 8y agoWow, making Sept 11th about respect for the military.
- prolikewh0a 8y agoWant to explain to me how they aren't murderers? https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrociti...