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this isn't spending, it's overnight loans to keep the market from seizing up if everybody's so panicked that nobody will let loose of their cash even for a "sur

by paulmd 7y ago

this isn't spending, it's overnight loans to keep the market from seizing up if everybody's so panicked that nobody will let loose of their cash even for a "sure bet". but as to your general sentiment, yeah, you're right, we've blown $1.5T on dumb bullshit like new military spending and a wall that mexico is going to pay for and yet we can't find any money for universal healthcare even when people are dying in the streets. Even when it would likely reduce healthcare spending.

a_tractor 7y ago
>even when people are dying in the streets And this is happening where, exactly? Are you talking about heroin addicts or something? >military spending You are talking about <19% of all Federal spending, most of which ends up in the hands of American citizens employed by the DoD and private Defense contractors. Medicare and medicaid combined equal this expense, then you still have SS and the rest of the welfare system. >the wall Less than $5B was appropriated for the border wall and border security, which represents an aspect of national defense which is about as basic and fundamental as the concept of an independent nation itself. So, clearly, the vast majority of the rest of that $1.5 trillion budget is going to other "dumb shit" that is even less important than the most foundational purpose of state government but you haven't bothered to mention what, for some reason... >Even when it would likely reduce healthcare spending. For who? How likely? How much would it be reduced? What do we have to give up in exchange? You do know that giving full control of your personal healthcare and a larger portion of your hard-earned income over to a bloated and corrupt bureaucratic state (that has proven time and time again to put the interests of the state over and above that of the nation/people it is mandated to serve, to the extent that the idea of replacing American citizens with a completely foreign population is seen as a viable avenue in pursuit of its own expansion and preservation) isn't the only way to reduce the price of healthcare, right? Universal healthcare in a country where people like you wish to basically dismantle our national defense and allow open borders is just about the fastest way to national ruin I could ever imagine. Just stone cold stupid.

by paulmd 7y ago

a_tractor 7y ago

>even when people are dying in the streets And this is happening where, exactly? Are you talking about heroin addicts or something? >military spending You are talking about <19% of all Federal spending, most of which ends up in the hands of American citizens employed by the DoD and private Defense contractors. Medicare and medicaid combined equal this expense, then you still have SS and the rest of the welfare system. >the wall Less than $5B was appropriated for the border wall and border security, which represents an aspect of national defense which is about as basic and fundamental as the concept of an independent nation itself. So, clearly, the vast majority of the rest of that $1.5 trillion budget is going to other "dumb shit" that is even less important than the most foundational purpose of state government but you haven't bothered to mention what, for some reason... >Even when it would likely reduce healthcare spending. For who? How likely? How much would it be reduced? What do we have to give up in exchange? You do know that giving full control of your personal healthcare and a larger portion of your hard-earned income over to a bloated and corrupt bureaucratic state (that has proven time and time again to put the interests of the state over and above that of the nation/people it is mandated to serve, to the extent that the idea of replacing American citizens with a completely foreign population is seen as a viable avenue in pursuit of its own expansion and preservation) isn't the only way to reduce the price of healthcare, right? Universal healthcare in a country where people like you wish to basically dismantle our national defense and allow open borders is just about the fastest way to national ruin I could ever imagine. Just stone cold stupid.