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..and an additional $60,0000 national debt per household.
by 34679 7y ago
..and an additional $60,0000 national debt per household.
- minikites 7y agoIt's weird how the national debt is only a problem when the proposal is helping ordinary people and never a problem when the proposal is to go to war overseas.
- 34679 7y ago12.5% of the $2T is "helping ordinary people". And some of us have been teargassed protesting wars..
- minikites 7y agoWhy is it only 12.5%? Why not 50%? Or 80%?
- 34679 7y ago2,000,000,000,000 / 250,000,000,000 = 12.5% That's the amount which will be sent out in checks directly to families. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-seeking-850-billion-stimulus-package-11584448802?mod=hp_lead_pos1 https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-seeking-85...
- minikites 7y agoYes, I'm asking why the amount is not larger than that, because it needs to be much larger.
- mmm_grayons 7y agoI don't like either and think both are largely wastes of money. In both cases there are always the very few poorest who need help from others and there are always a very few situations where we need to go to war. Would you please stop with the tu quoque now?
- minikites 7y agoYou have very few people who agree with you. 95% of the time "the national debt" is only used a cudgel against proposals to help the working class.
- x86_64Ubuntu 7y agoWhy do we have to stop with the tu quoque, it's a relevant point especially how we are posting anti-drug ships outside of Venezuela and talking about Iran sneak attacking us. Even in the throes of a pandemic we haven't missed a step in trying to throw billion dollar military platforms into useless trillion dollar wars.
- mmm_grayons 7y agoBecause we're in a thread discussing the virus problem? This is an attempt to derail the very reasonable cost concerns about these gov't bail-outs. Besides, "helping people" already accounts for a much greater portion of our spending and of the national debt. Also, in terms of debt contributed, first bail-out alone is $2T while the military budget is less than one.