• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Mexico spends $8 billion a year on defense. Canada spends $26 billion a year on defense.

    We’ve spent well over $100 billion on Ukraine already, and Israel gets $5 billion a year from the US in charity annually.

    When do the American people get an emergency spending package, you know, considering it’s our money in the first place?

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      1 year ago

      Unless you want to barter with your medical provider using cold war era weaponry, it’s not a direct comparison. Most of the “dollars” in aid Ukraine receives is equipment. There have been cash payments mostly for (allegedly) humanitarian purposes, and I won’t begrudge them that.

      Also the Israel aid is vouchers for them to buy US military equipment. Now whether we should support a genocidal nation at all is a question worth considering, but it’s never stopped us before.

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      1 year ago

      At this point it stopped being your money a long time ago and became your debt and your children’s debt and your children’s children’s debt. Got to love unhinged unbalanced generational national debt.