But when we ask for help as citizens, "how are you gonna pay for it, huh?"
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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Healthcare, debt relief, child povery mitigation.
unlimited genocide on US designated subhumans
No healthcare though.
or living wage, or affordable housing
The US government only disagrees on matters which support the average citizen. Other than that, both sides are in lockstep when it comes to voting on bills...
They already spend a ton of public dollars on health. The problem is that it goes to insurance companies, administrative staff, and the downstream health costs of inadequate early access to care.
You're kinda contradicting yourself.
They don't spend public dollars on health. They give it to insurance companies and administrative staff and pharmaceutical companies and other private moneyed interests, and then there's none left for us.
They actually do spend a lot of public dollars on health, it's just spent into a system that isn't efficient. Universal access to care drives down costs significantly across the board - instead they have piecemeal coverage and a system with overall costs inflated by administrative staff hired solely to manage insurance billing and delayed treatments.
It's an interesting area of policy where expanding coverage means lower costs overall.
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how do you think it has the biggest army in the world
This shit is going to pass with full bipartisan support and libs are still going to be confused the next time someone tells them both ~~sides~~ parties are the same.
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famously poorly armed state of Israel
Desperate empire practices policy of War Startups, sends funding to whomever
Silica Valley
Saigon Valley
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~4 NASAs (FY2023)
Truly demonstrates how wildly preposterous it is at its core. Space exploration makes countries focus together on a bigger picture, which everyone's also interested in, and even makes us realize what our taxes are capable of financing. Regardless, its worth it alone just for showing youngsters how fascinating and worthwhile science is as a career choice...
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The burger regime rn:
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