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... $399 billion could virtually end hunger in America. ... Or, you know, we could kill more innocent people halfway across the world. Yeah, let's do that.

• Maakuth 12y ago
  Oh, that money doesn't include any killing, it's just for designing and building this single tool for it. Actual war fighting is rather more expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
• Someone1234 12y ago
  This isn't Reddit. I don't come to HK to read memes or "jokes." Please contribute something more substantive. You could have made your point about hunger and priorities without it turning into an "America!!!" gag. Then maybe someone else would have replied and the conversation would have moved forward.
  • Zigurd 12y ago
    Meh. We need a bucket of cold water poured on us. How much of our highly touted "manufacturing renaissance" was in this boondoggle? It's a situation that deserves ridicule.
  • lostgame 12y ago
    I'm not going to apologize for my use of a little bit of internet-flavoured comedy to make light of an otherwise absolutely horrifying situation. As a dual US/CDN citizen myself, I really have to look at this and say 'Whoa. A country that I have pledged my allegiance to is, even as I type this, actively choosing to spend money on killing people outside of their country as well as it's own citizens, instead of helping the people inside of it's own country that are unfortunate bi-products of it's government and banking system's poor decision making over the last century.' I work in theatre as well as software development, and in theatre we have two faces, a laughing face and a crying face. Because everything is a tragedy or a comedy, depending on how you look at it. I'm just choosing to use the smiley face. :O)