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Multi-trillions in defense spending and for what? Our country is crippled with ineptitude and hogtied by the billionaire plutocracy. The systems the masses dep

Multi-trillions in defense spending and for what? Our country is crippled with ineptitude and hogtied by the billionaire plutocracy. The systems the masses depend on will crumble long before the ruling class notices. Look to our national elections as a grotesque reminder.

DinaCoder99 3y ago
Given how poorly our defense spending effects literally anything related to our security, I'd rather not discover what havoc our government might wreak on the internet.
Amezarak 3y ago
The US government as a whole already spends more on health care than it does on defense. 2022: 944 billion (Medicare), 805 billion (Medicaid). [1] We could add the VA health care system (approx 100 billion), CHIP (few tens of billions), ACA subsidies (tens of billions), other publicly owned medical services (???), and probably some more things we're forgetting. 753 billion requested by the WH in defense spending. [2] This probably does not encompass all defense spending period, but there's nothing else going to add many 100s of billions to even come close to the health care figure. The problem with the US medical system isn't that not enough dollars are being allocated to it. The US government as a whole (state and federal) is already spending as much per capita as many European countries. We just don't get as much for it. I think it's fair to say as you did that entire sectors of the US economy are being crippled by ineptitude, which I would say is institutional rather than personal. The problem is systemic and it's hard to see how it could ever be practically fixed. [1] https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-reports/national-health-expenditure-data/nhe-fact-sheet https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-repo... [2] https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2638711/the-department-of-defense-releases-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2022-defense-budg/ https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/263871...

DinaCoder99 3y ago

Given how poorly our defense spending effects literally anything related to our security, I'd rather not discover what havoc our government might wreak on the internet.

Amezarak 3y ago

The US government as a whole already spends more on health care than it does on defense. 2022: 944 billion (Medicare), 805 billion (Medicaid). [1] We could add the VA health care system (approx 100 billion), CHIP (few tens of billions), ACA subsidies (tens of billions), other publicly owned medical services (???), and probably some more things we're forgetting. 753 billion requested by the WH in defense spending. [2] This probably does not encompass all defense spending period, but there's nothing else going to add many 100s of billions to even come close to the health care figure. The problem with the US medical system isn't that not enough dollars are being allocated to it. The US government as a whole (state and federal) is already spending as much per capita as many European countries. We just don't get as much for it. I think it's fair to say as you did that entire sectors of the US economy are being crippled by ineptitude, which I would say is institutional rather than personal. The problem is systemic and it's hard to see how it could ever be practically fixed. [1] https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-reports/national-health-expenditure-data/nhe-fact-sheet https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-repo... [2] https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2638711/the-department-of-defense-releases-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2022-defense-budg/ https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/263871...