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Robert Reich has articulated with characteristic clarity what should be understood as a fundamental transfer of public resources to the war machine. $1 billion per day. $200 billion requested. This is not a budget. This is a political statement about whose lives are considered expendable. ???
The pattern is not accidental and has been documented across decades. Cut the programs that sustain the working class. Expand the military budget that sustains the defense contractor class. Cut taxes on those who profit from both. This is not fiscal policy. This is class warfare with a flag on it. ⚖️?️?
Cancer research cut while Tomahawk missiles at $2.2 million each rain on Iranian shorelines. Food stamps cut while $200 billion is requested for an unauthorized war. Environmental protections cut while oil companies profit from the chaos their executive helped engineer at the CIA. The arithmetic is deliberate. ??☠️
Eisenhower warned us. Thompson warned us. Reich is documenting it in real time. The military industrial complex does not need your healthcare or your food stamps or your cancer research. It needs your compliance and your children and your tax dollars. It's not obscene. It's the plan. ????
#MilitaryIndustrialComplex #ClassWarfare #RobertReich #CutForWar #$1BillionPerDay #AuthorizedByNobody #TaxesOnTheRich #EisenhowerWasRight #ThePatternIsDeliberate
FreePalestineAndTheWorldFromIsrael
American political tactics 101: Ruin your own country then blame another and start a war with them.
BLKLTRS
I remember when a tomahawk missile only cost 1 million.
lildude52ca
and yet you fucking morons all allowed it to happen. and you're allowing it to continue. the whole world is laughing at you for doingnothing
tinytyrant
but i don't wanna hear about politics....
PunnyTiger
#1 healthcare, education and protecting the environment don't generate bribes. military spending always generates huge bribes. do you really think a missile costs 40 million to make? more like a couple hundred thousand, tops. the rest is all bribes and pork
duktayp
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Shaodyn
We can afford a billion a day for a war and $45 billion to build prisons for brown people, but not universal healthcare.
SecurityBadger
That $200B is not just for the Iran war. He's going to need some of it for Cuba, too.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
At a burn rate of ~$1bn a day, the tRump team wants to continue a war they say is already won and winding down for another 200 days.
laurapede83
All of it together is abominably wrong to begin with, but 50 billion for Israel. And I know you all hear/read these stories a lot but I'm a 60 swf on disability for 2 collapsed hips, I am so fucking far below poverty level in NY (less than 1000 month) it was never funny. I hope they kill themselves out with all that $. Wouldn't that be ironic. All of "gods chosen" kill themselves with the money and hate "he" told them not to covet.
pintgudge1975
Regime change in the United States now!
Let’s just get rid of these assholes!
Krossis
RenaissanceFaireMan
$39 trillion US debt.
duktayp
And because the people in politics that are supposed to be looking out for us are as dirty as the warmongers, they're powerless to change anything
LespritDeLescalier22
And unwilling. Don’t forget that part
ArdentNature
We're letting a handful of people burn the world.
Selfinflictedwounds
Republicans have long been against Social Security, Food stamps, and any type of government assistance or intervention. These are all commie pinko ideas that are against the very idea of capitalism.
Drummondwc
We also had to cut USAID
BLKLTRS
I remember when a tomahawk missile only cost 1 million.
Anfalicious
50 third world countries standing on each other's shoulders wearing a trench coat made of f-35s
zHurk777
The Good News is that we'll have more Clean Coal !!! Beautiful Clean Coal !!! Terrific !!! The Best Clean Coal Ever !!!
Imadethisaccounttopost
I never want to hear someone in the government say we don't have the budget for ever again, the only response is a punch to the jaw/face at this point IMHO.
reichstein
"It's not obscene. It's the plan."
Sadly it is both.
PopeBruce
I wish we could see less of this kinda stuff but people seeing it is important. I hope someday we have no need.
zhgghhghnbhh
He will get it
januarylover
It's what many Americans voted for. Trump has never produced any policies (or concepts of plans) that he'll redistribute wealth to education, feeding the poor, healthcare, science, cancer research etc. He HAS made numerous threats & insults towards other nations. He has accused Obama of wanting to attack Iran (which basically guarantees Trump wanted to). He has called your closest neighbors rapists, he has called your soldiers suckers & losers. Y'all voted for this.
januarylover
He's running America the exact same way he ran his businesses (Trump Uni, Trump Steaks, Trump Casinos, Trump Slums). Pocketing as much money as possible, borrowing high, not paying anything back, making up rules, malicious lawsuits, siccing thugs on people (& not paying those thugs - hi, ICE). He has transferred billions of YOUR MONEY into his offshore private accounts. Lying, stealing, tax fraud. This is exactly the way Trump ran businesses. Big business in war for the war mongers.
goflyblind
you guys can all afford to snort cocaine off of a toilet seat, right? you're fine.
duktayp
I think this merits another strongly worded letter from Chuck Schumer
georgejimmydoodle
Curious to know what you would like the party without power to do in this situation. If your answer is violence, you strap on the first bomb vest before you demand it of anyone else.
crabbygramps
this time, use a lot of caps, underlining and exclamation points
BubblesTheFish
Why I oughta!!!
77hnx994wv10
Don’t forget the pearl clutching from Elizabeth Warren
ActionJohnnie
Fuck Chuck. He’s getting primary’d
lightfoot2
Never was about "money"
PunnyTiger
yes it was, about the money grifted to the politicians approving the spending. if everyone sent 10% of their stimulus check to their senator then you'd be getting them every week.
NKato
It's about control.
ChenChioMinawa
What’s the endgame with all this?
Elkarlo1977
Trump getting more Bribes and avoids getting exposed in the Epstein Files. They know that he won't survive the next three years and even when he will be out of office in 2027 because of increasing dementia.
DangerBaer
His life philosophy fits on a bumper sticker.
He who dies with the most shit, wins.
It would be funny if hundreds of millions weren't suffering for his sociopathy.
Bundalicious
Keep your people stupid, poor and unhealthy, so they can be used as fodder for war.
rbudrick
And preferably pregnant.
softsuit
Just sayingvoters...