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Biden announces $2.5 billion in Ukraine defense assistance
(abcnews.go.com)
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I'm all for helping Ukraine but it seems like a constant spit in the eye seeing our govt shell out billions of dollars worth of aid to other countries while our own citizens fight to survive this corporate hellscape that constricts us tighter and tighter by the second.
Edit: I'd love for someone to explain to me how it's not insulting to send billions to countries like Ukraine and Israel or wherever tf else when all that money could've been used to create federal programs that actually help American citizens like the homeless or literally anything like that.
The aid we send to Ukraine is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of wealth we allow the ultra rich to hoard. Our wealth tax rates are already criminally low, and even on those the underfunded IRS fails to collect somewhere between $500 billion to a trillion every year.
Our lack of a public safety net has nothing to do with foreign aid, and everything to do with our corrupt government doing everything it can to entrench the oligarchy.
Edit, didn't think to source it until after I commented, looks like I sort of misremembered an old politico article, which is kind of a shitty source anyway--but everything other than the exact numbers I mentioned is still true
Also, lumping Israel and Ukraine together as equally bad is ludicrous
Is this comment coming from north of the border?
I don't know what you're trying to say
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