alt Hacker NewsNo you forgot the wasted spending on Social Security, Medicaid, and other subsidies! See, other people can throw in snide remarks too.
There's room to debate military spending, but if you view the world as a dangerous place and that the US should not become isolationist, we have to spend the money and have equipment ready and capable whether that's in Europe or in Asia. Alternatively we can disband much of the military, stop paying for this stuff, withdraw from NATO, remove overseas bases in countries like Japan and South Korea, and leave the world to deal with its own problems.
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> No you forgot the wasted spending on Social Security, Medicaid, and other subsidies!
Most of that money ends up being spent in communities (grocery stores etc) and hospitals. So at least that money flows back into a local community.
There's plenty wrong with the US healthcare system, but since the vast majority gets their healthcare through their employer you'll have to come up with something for when they retire or unable to work. That's just an outcome of how the system was set up.
> No you forgot the wasted spending on Social Security [...] See, other people can throw in snide remarks too.
No, snide and wrong is extremely different!
Social Security spending is already funded by a separate tax and currently running a surplus. It's what our legislators are are debt to when use the discretionary budget to let the President start a game of Battleship in the straight of Hormuz.
Most of that money is wasted on keeping the military industrial complex fat and happy, it's not going into soldier's pockets. And I say this being pro-US and indeed seeing the world as a dangerous place.
But let's not make some bullshit up about a million dollars wasted on some non-sense, when we have real problems with the DoW, which can't even audit itself, sucking up almost a trillion dollars.