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We've been at this for 2.5 days, and the president is suggesting this could last a month or more. I suspect the long term ROI on free school lunches is going t
by roughly 7mo ago
We've been at this for 2.5 days, and the president is suggesting this could last a month or more.
I suspect the long term ROI on free school lunches is going to far exceed that of this war, as well.
- cvoss 7mo agoThe government's job is not to maximize its ROI. For example, (and I make no argument about whether the current situation does this), protecting its citizens is of extreme moral importance, even if it's very very expensive and unlikely to somehow feed back into the economy in a way that recoups the cost long term.
- roughly 7mo agoThen surely universal health care, strict anti-pollution measures, and worker safety efforts are next on the list, alongside access to healthy food and efforts to reduce the number of miles the average person needs to drive daily.
- mhb 7mo agoSurely? It's far from clear that the benefits of these initiatives would be net positive.
- roughly 7mo agoThe poster above asserted maximizing ROI wasn't a goal - that, and I quote: > protecting its citizens is of extreme moral importance Given the number of our citizens that die from, eg, preventable diseases, that seems like a far, far higher moral call than a war against Iran.
- ikrenji 7mo agoexcuse me? the government's job is absolutely to maximize its ROI. I'm not paying taxes just for the money to be wasted
- bdangubic 7mo ago^ who is going to tell him…? :)
- sheikhnbake 7mo agoIt's less about maximizing ROI and more about proper stewardship of resources taken by or provided to the government.
- throwaw12 7mo ago> protecting its citizens is of extreme moral importance If you are relating protecting citizens with current situation, NO country dares to attack US citizens in the US soil. US, at this time, doesn't need to protect its citizens, especially in the US, from attacks by other nations, 0, none. No threat.
- karmakurtisaani 7mo agoOn the contrary, by starting this war the government kmjust made terrorist attacks more likely. It's laughably naive to think this dumbfuck war has anything to do with Trump caring about regular Americans.
- tstrimple 7mo agoIt's all about government efficiency for some folks until the time comes do drop bombs on girls schools. Then there is no need for ROI or smart spending.
- anigbrowl 7mo agoI suggest that the US is putting its citizens at considerably more risk than they were in last week.
- hedora 7mo agoEveryone except the president is suggesting this will turn into a regional forever war.
- mothballed 7mo agoIt already was a regional forever war. The US just decided to partake in the festivities.
- baxtr 7mo agoThe same "everyone" that said Ukraine will be taken in 2 weeks max? No one knows how this will end. Anyone claiming to is either lying or stupid or both.
- hedora 7mo agoI'd be curious to know what group thought that Ukraine would be taken in 2 weeks, but also thinks that the Iranian war will be a quagmire. Either they have a lot of information I'm missing, are complete idiots, or are being dishonest.
- baxtr 7mo agoYou’re missing my point. No one can know at this stage. It’s called fog of war. Those who pretend offer easy explanations because people crave easy answers. It’s not satisfying to say: "it’s very complex, we can’t know, here are the odds". But that’s the current state of affairs.
- hedora 7mo agoThere's zero chance the US/Israel will win this war and stop 100% of their military actions in the next 8 weeks. 8 weeks is the absolute upper bound of the estimates from the officials of both countries. The officials are clearly lying.
- karmakurtisaani 7mo agoThis is not a good take. Obviously no one knows, but there very serious and good reasons to believe this will not end easily or well.
- s1artibartfast 7mo ago99% of school lunches have zero ROI. Parents can provide them just fine.