• @doingthestuff
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    111 year ago

    $10b would provide meals for kids in schools and eliminate school food debt. We did it for one year during COVID but now lunch ladies get to go back to debt collection. Just to put these figures in perspective. The US govt doesn’t care about its own people.

    • @bostonbananarama
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      261 year ago

      $10b is nothing, a rounding error in the federal budget. It’s a sad day when you come to the realization that people go hungry and homeless simply because we allow it. Both problems could be solved in under a year if we had the will to do so.

      That said, Ukraine is worth supporting, it’s definitely not an either/or situation.

    • @GoofSchmoofer
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      1 year ago

      In Afghanistan and Iraq … Washington spent more than $8 trillion

      Never let anyone say we (America) don’t have the money do to things. That’s bullshit. If this country could spend $8 trillion dollars on a war that accomplished nothing, we can spend money to help those that need it.