I’m all for helping Ukraine but it seems like a constant spit in the eye seeing our govt shell out billions of dollars worth of aid to other countries while our own citizens fight to survive this corporate hellscape that constricts us tighter and tighter by the second.
Edit: I’d love for someone to explain to me how it’s not insulting to send billions to countries like Ukraine and Israel or wherever tf else when all that money could’ve been used to create federal programs that actually help American citizens like the homeless or literally anything like that.
60 billion is a drop in the bucket, the majority of which isn’t cash, it’s equipment that’s been sitting and is no longer being used. That 60 billion is put back into our own economy because it means jobs are being made to replace said equipment. It’s a win win for both sides. We’re also the richest country on the planet, we have plenty to do what we need to here at home, but it’s not getting done because of Ukraine, it’s not getting done because we have politicians who are beholden to the rich oligarchs here.
That kinda supports my argument though. It’s not helping American citizens it’s helping American oligarchs.
No, Ukraine’s survival is not good for American oligarchs and nowhere in the comment you’re responding to was that even vaguely implied
Sinking Ukraine in endless debt that they default on so it will be swept up by the oligarchy is good for American oligarchs.
Yes, we should let them be swept up by Russia, which has a far worse corruption and oligarchy problem, instead.
All this while the homeless rate in the United States increased to 18%.
It shows were Biden’s (and Senate Democrats) priorities are when he’d rather spend billions to shore up the American empire’s expansion rather that spending less than half of that to help Americans who have no shelter, home, nor prospects.
They care for empire more than they do its citizens. And I’m going to bet most of the people that are down voting you are also struggling financially while defending our country ignoring them.
yes, i’ve learned not to bother responding to liberals on liberal territory. i’m not responsible for; nor capable of; educating anyone.
Which marxist-leninist government do you think is the best? China, or North Korea?
what we need are some projects or communist style brutalist block buildings. Those worked well in the past!
I agree with your first sentence in general, but this is not giving money that could better be used to help the homeless. This is giving equipment that is sitting in warehouses. This equipment is assigned a dollar value.
Let’s say we could somehow sell this stuff and convert it to money, then it could be used to help the homeless right? Also wrong in this case. It has been allocated by Congress to help Ukraine. It cannot be used otherwise.
In the meantime US homeless is at another all time high, which tops last years all time high. 18.1% higher than last years high of 12%
Shut up; the economy’s doing great by every metric politicians care about.
Wow it’s like the current “sow division” anti-US talking point
I don’t know how many times this needs to be explained, but this is not money. It is not stacks of cash we could use to hand out to the homeless, or to rent them apartments.
This is war materiel. Artillery shells, vehicles, etc. It is assigned a dollar value. This is stuff we have sitting in warehouses, sometimes pretty old and in need of replacement anyway.
I’m no fan of the military industrial complex, but these donations could even be seen as a way to create American jobs in American factories, building modern replacements for what is being sent.
