Current Events > This shit really boggles my mind. U.S. government gives billions to Ukraine but

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don't want to spend money and help people in the country they govern. Shit is wild. We could use those dozens of billions of dollars U.S. gave to Ukraine and over $150+ billion U.S. give to Isreal who are violently oppressing Palestinians to fix our infrastructure, forgive debt and save people's lives by giving them a fresh start, give poor people more money so they don't need to eat cereal with water every day cause they're too poor to afford better food, give more money to help people actually afford a house, and fund anything else to make the quality of life better for everyone in the U.S.

Because the military industrial complex owns the government. Making weapons is highly profitable and feeding people is not. Everything else is window dressing.

Forgiving student debt doesnt benefit the rich and powerful.

Russia taking over Ukraine can be a detriment to the rich and powerful.

it makes more sense when you realize that money is basically just made up anyway. It's just like monopoly. The only time "debt" matters is when it's time to do something to help people, then it's prohibitively expensive. We can print infinite amounts of money if it's for the military though.

You know that the vast majority of the money going to Ukraine is in equipment that we already paid for and manufactured decades ago, yes?

Hey everybody look, another mid 2000's account with abnormally low karma has some questions they'd like to ask.

I'm sure this will go as well as all the others have.

Litterally the vast majority of our country's budget is dedicated towards helping our bottomline. Anyone trying to claim otherwise doesn't know wtf their talking about.

I would prefer we did not spend billions in Ukraine.

Garioshi posted...

Because the military industrial complex owns the government. Making weapons is highly profitable and feeding people is not. Everything else is window dressing.

taking care of people would be profitable, since people would have more money to spend it on stuff. it would just take time and not have an instant benefit to just a few big companies. plus, they'd have to share the profits rather than keep it all