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Our tax dollars hard at work on the important issues.
by imperio59 3y ago
Our tax dollars hard at work on the important issues.
- karmajunkie 3y agofrankly id rather have a database of dad jokes than more bombs
- labster 3y agoWhy not both? Slava Ukraini, dad jokes slava!
- noSyncCloud 3y ago...Yes?
- eru 3y agoJoke's on you: those are not my tax dollars. Foreigners get those premium dad jokes free of charge. (Though I wonder whether the Chinese can claim dumping with the WTO? That's what the Americans do with Chinese goods that are delivered cheaper than they would like to compete with.)
- fnordpiglet 3y agoRealistically we borrowed me the money from you.
- eru 3y agoThat's probably true. My adopted home of Singapore holds enough foreign reserves to more than back every Singapore dollar they issued. In practice, 'foreign reserves' is mostly another name for US government debt.
- kube-system 3y agoYes, it is: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/12/12/u-s-children-more-likely-than-children-in-other-countries-to-live-with-just-one-parent/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/12/12/u-s-child... It may seem silly on the surface, but solving issues at the root is often way more effective than treating the symptoms. In plain words: we're better off solving crime by having a kid grow up in a healthy household, rather than throwing that kid in prison after they commit a crime, who may in turn have a kid who grows up in an unhealthy household without a father.
- alchemist1e9 3y agoJust so I’m clear - you are then saying that Federal government spending on this is something you support?
- segfaltnh 3y agoI do. I doubt it cost much in relative terms, and it's drawn a lot of attention to the issue of fatherhood and spawned a lot of debate.
- kube-system 3y agoYes, and I wish we spent 100x on initiatives like this, that attempt to influence behavior for the better.
- Bnichs 3y agoIt's an line to draw in terms of spending given how absolutely nothing this is in terms of spending. This website probably costs about half that of a single one of the millions of shells made for the US military in a year.
- PepperdineG 3y agoErnest Scribbler helped win WWII for the British with a joke that was over 60,000 times as powerful as Britain's great pre-war joke.