• @PugJesusOP
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      256 months ago

      Have you ever questioned why there’s always a new crisis that makes Raytheon execs rich, but mysteriously leaves nothing to spend on civilians here at home?

      Imagine thinking that’s why we don’t have well-funded social services.

    • @barsquid
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      246 months ago

      In 2020, when corporations that had just received three years of outrageously large tax cuts and stock buybacks were frightened of losing revenue, the Repub government fabricated trillions of dollars in handouts to pass around with little to no oversight.

      It is not the spending on Raytheon that is preventing spending on citizens at home. It is that half the country has oppositional defiant disorder about any service or policy that would help poor people.

    • @StinkyOnions
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      196 months ago

      And this right here is an example of someone not knowing how their own government works.

        • @StinkyOnions
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          86 months ago

          Never said there wasn’t.

          I’m just pointing out that you don’t even know how your own government works, that is, if you’re even American.

            • @StinkyOnions
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              6 months ago

              Gee, I didn’t know not being American means you’re automatically Russian. Either way, you’re intentionally missing the entire point of my replies. You don’t know how your own government works. Helping Ukraine in no way is draining tax payer money, ya dunce.

                • @StinkyOnions
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                  56 months ago

                  …you do realize that Ukraine is only getting a surplus of US equipment that was going to be replaced? Totaling the amount of those Ukraine defense bills? There is no money being exchanged, lol.

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

      And this is why we never have any money for investing in domestic programs to improve anything. If it’s not Korea, it’s Vietnam, if not Vietnam, it’s Kosovo, if not Kosovo, it’s Iraq, if not Iraq it’s Afghanistan, if not Afghanistan, it’s Ukraine. Have you ever questioned why there’s always a new crisis that makes Raytheon execs rich, but mysteriously leaves nothing to spend on civilians here at home?

      It’s absolutely not the reason lol. The reason you can’t invest in domestic programs like universal healthcare or post-secondary education financing reform is because half of your fellow Americans oppose it, and vote accordingly. Convincing others matters.