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"where the winners get space ships and the losers die," The Social Security budget is $1.4 Trillion, just the federal welfare budget is >$1Trillion (not includ
by pj_mukh 2y ago
"where the winners get space ships and the losers die,"
The Social Security budget is $1.4 Trillion, just the federal welfare budget is >$1Trillion (not including state budgets), and then there's medicare. Meanwhile, the NASA budget is <$25B (with SpaceX's operating budget and profits being a fraction of that)
I wish we lived in that simple of a world. But we don't.
- permo-w 2y agothis is a complete non-sequitur. the US social security budget does not go to one person or a small group of oligarchs
- pj_mukh 2y ago“the winners get space ships and the losers die, they'd call you crazy” Was the original quote. I just showed that you could get rid of all rockets ever made and it would be a rounding error for any funds used to save the “losers” from dying. How is that a non-sequitur?