Forget what that could fund. $200 billion with 400 million Americans means that every single American chose to throw $500 to this war. It’s like you found $500 on the street, you picked them up, and you sent them to Washington for the money to transform into rockets that rain down on school children.
Every. Single. American. Chose to take $500 they could have spent on food or credit debt or education or rent or whatever your priority. And instead they chose to turn it into big kabooms half a world away. Big kabooms that make everything at home more expensive. From grandma in a wheelchair to barely born, including legal and illegal immigrants. People living in tents didn’t get their $500, people facing medical bankruptcy didn’t get their $500.
It’s disgusting what kind of garbage this government is willing to spend money on while it calls affordability, a hoax.
The last time Congress refused to fund a war, the Republicans just sold weapons to our bitterest enemy (Iran, ironically), so they could use the profits to fund their illegal war in Nicaragua.
Maybe Trump can ask all his billionaire friends to chip in, a billion a piece. A few of them can pay more, a lot more.
remind me when every single statesian pressed a button that said “bomb iran”.
you need a refresher on direct, proximal, indirect causation, but for causation, etc. plenty of statesians did everything they could short of criminal activity to prevent this, but according to you they pulled the trigger themselves.
Why don’t they take the funds from ICE for his non-war war?
This admin? They’d sooner cut from Veterans Affairs.
What a FANTASTIC Idea!
-Republicans who SUPPORT the Troops!
Every day he’s alive is a day we let him live
These numbers are staggering, but you also get numb to them. One billion doesn’t seem like that much when you look at the price of some military hardware or what’s spent on legitimate government programs, but it’s an insanely large amount of money.
A good way to get less numb to them is to compare against a list of things this would pay for.
Like 8 NASAs. Or other stuff in the article or comments here.
I ran across another post tonight that helps give a different perspective on what that number means. That $200 billion he is asking for is more than Smaug’s mountain of gold. About four times more. We’ve already spent more on Trump’s war than Smaug had in the Lonely Mountain.
interesting isn’t it that this article comes from a staunchly rightwing pro billionaire publisher. Ask yourself why they would publish this. is it to rub your nose in how powerless you are? they are laughing at you.
