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"Policing the world" doesn't have to cost that much. Nearly $2tn spent just on the pointless Iraq misadventure. How much public transit and education could that
by triceratops 1y ago
"Policing the world" doesn't have to cost that much. Nearly $2tn spent just on the pointless Iraq misadventure. How much public transit and education could that have funded?
- dgfitz 1y ago> How much public transit and education could that have funded? Given the current costs for NYC to expand its subway, about 500 miles of track given the current costs per mile.
- actionfromafar 1y agoThat sounds great actually.
- triceratops 1y agoThe entire NYC subway, the busiest system in the country, has 660 miles of track. NYC has a GDP of $1.3tn and the subway system has a big hand in making that possible. So that's actually a pretty good RoI. It'll go a lot further (haha!) in a less expensive city. But that also goes back to the original comment about spending the surplus wisely.
- rangestransform 1y agoPolicing the world is a jobs program for all of the unionized factory workers at lockmart and Boeing that would otherwise be, at best, trades workers earning a more modest wage. We can thank the MIC’s placement of factories in strategic congressional districts for that