alt Hacker NewsNever enough money for healthcare , childcare or school lunches, but always plenty of money for foreign wars.
Why Americans are not rioting in the streets is beyond me.
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Anything to keep ourselves comfortable. That's one of the reasons I see that we have representatives - so the population at large doesn't have to bear the burden of doing dirty work.
We then in the same breath complain about government but put forth no effort to fix it.
It sounds like you want some Americans to go out and break shit til they get their way? That's not how 1st world countries operate.
75% of them are overweight or obese, 30% functionally illiterate. They have neither the physical, cognitive or cultural capabilities to do what's needed
> Why Americans are not rioting in the streets is beyond me.
I'm really am tired of reading this nonsensical hyperbolic line. No one is hurting enough to care to take to the streets. You know this, I know this, we all know this. Please stop repeating it.
> Why Americans are not rioting in the streets is beyond me.
That's not entirely fair. The January 6 rioters acted because they knew how bad for the country it would be if the wrong candidate got into office and started a war.
the bombing of the girls school should never have happened and is inexcusable, but otherwise increasing the future safety by annihilating the military structure of an aspiring nuclear power for say $50B / 250M inhabitants = $200 per person, sounds like a steal
if only this would have been done before and thus instead of a genocide in Gaza!
I don't know, if you look at public health consumption expenditures per capita, current prices, current PPPs, 2015-2024, US is up there. It's mostly medicaid and medicare. You might not like how the money is being spent but the idea that US doesn't spend money on these things compared to other Western countries is just not true.
Same with education
> In 2019, the United States spent $15,500 per full-time-equivalent (FTE) student on elementary and secondary education, which was 38 percent higher than the average of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries of $11,300 (in constant 2021 U.S. dollars). At the postsecondary level, the United States spent $37,400 per FTE student, which was more than double the average of OECD countries ($18,400; in constant 2021 U.S. dollars).
I get that it's cool to say US doesn't spend on these kinds of things, but it's just not true. It's a rich country
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...