Americans and their priorities

[bill718]

We live a country where if you want to bomb someone, there is little or no discussion as to the cost. Firing a $78,000 missile from a 28 million dollar drone at a cost of $3,624.00 per hour to kill people in the middle east who live on less than $1.00 a day is little more than business as usual in America.

However - -

When deciding how much (if anything) to spend on assisting their fellow Americans with malnutrition, homelessness and basic medical care, we sharpen our pencils, break out the calculators bemoan the price, and wring our hands at the thought of asking for an extra penny in tax revenue from billionaires who profit so handsomely from the country that enriches and protects them.

 

[Concerned American]

We live a country where if you want to bomb someone, there is little or no discussion as to the cost. Firing a $78,000 missile from a 28 million dollar drone at a cost of $3,624.00 per hour to kill people in the middle east who live on less than $1.00 a day is little more than business as usual in America.

However - -

When deciding how much (if anything) to spend on assisting their fellow Americans with malnutrition, homelessness and basic medical care, we sharpen our pencils, break out the calculators bemoan the price, and wring our hands at the thought of asking for an extra penny in tax revenue from billionaires who profit so handsomely from the country that enriches and protects them.

Nice cherry picking. You failed to note the more than $55B in foreign aid and UN and WHO funding that the US taxpayer DONATED last year.

 

[Auld Phart]

 

[Concerned American]

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Because the SS fund was in the hen house and the democrat foxes are guarding it doing what democrats do best, THIEVING.

 

[TNHarley]

We live a country where if you want to bomb someone, there is little or no discussion as to the cost. Firing a $78,000 missile from a 28 million dollar drone at a cost of $3,624.00 per hour to kill people in the middle east who live on less than $1.00 a day is little more than business as usual in America.

However - -

When deciding how much (if anything) to spend on assisting their fellow Americans with malnutrition, homelessness and basic medical care, we sharpen our pencils, break out the calculators bemoan the price, and wring our hands at the thought of asking for an extra penny in tax revenue from billionaires who profit so handsomely from the country that enriches and protects them.

Im with ya. Cut the fuck out of the military.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand end all welfare

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Terrorists in the middle east are living on less than a dollar a day?

How do they afford all those explosives, then, numbskull?

 

[bendog]

We live a country where if you want to bomb someone, there is little or no discussion as to the cost. Firing a $78,000 missile from a 28 million dollar drone at a cost of $3,624.00 per hour to kill people in the middle east who live on less than $1.00 a day is little more than business as usual in America.

However - -

When deciding how much (if anything) to spend on assisting their fellow Americans with malnutrition, homelessness and basic medical care, we sharpen our pencils, break out the calculators bemoan the price, and wring our hands at the thought of asking for an extra penny in tax revenue from billionaires who profit so handsomely from the country that enriches and protects them.

Interesting thought, but people always view events by what's it mean to them. In a nutshell, its the economy stupid.

 

[Darkwind]

We live a country where if you want to bomb someone, there is little or no discussion as to the cost. Firing a $78,000 missile from a 28 million dollar drone at a cost of $3,624.00 per hour to kill people in the middle east who live on less than $1.00 a day is little more than business as usual in America.

However - -

When deciding how much (if anything) to spend on assisting their fellow Americans with malnutrition, homelessness and basic medical care, we sharpen our pencils, break out the calculators bemoan the price, and wring our hands at the thought of asking for an extra penny in tax revenue from billionaires who profit so handsomely from the country that enriches and protects them.

Perhaps if you spent money in a useful way and put people in charge of their destiny (teaching them skills to survive and work) then the burden to support them becomes more effective and and cheaper.

 

[Concerned American]

We live a country where if you want to bomb someone, there is little or no discussion as to the cost. Firing a $78,000 missile from a 28 million dollar drone at a cost of $3,624.00 per hour to kill people in the middle east who live on less than $1.00 a day is little more than business as usual in America.

However - -

When deciding how much (if anything) to spend on assisting their fellow Americans with malnutrition, homelessness and basic medical care, we sharpen our pencils, break out the calculators bemoan the price, and wring our hands at the thought of asking for an extra penny in tax revenue from billionaires who profit so handsomely from the country that enriches and protects them.

Perhaps if you spent money in a useful way and put people in charge of their destiny (teaching them skills to survive and work) then the burden to support them becomes more effective and and cheaper.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime--- and he can sell part of his catch for beer money--and his wife will never see him again. LOL.

 

[sparky]

$3,624.00 per hour to kill people

well i'm fairly certain we could cut costs farmin' that out to some 3rd world sweatshops....~S~

 

[themirrorthief]

bill718 except the usa spends more than ten times as much on social programs and the next closest nation...try harder chairman Mao

 

[whitehall]

Look to the origins of the greatest Country on earth. The Constitutional Congress listed the duties of the Federal government in two sentences. "To provide for the common defense". "To promote the general welfare". Somehow through the years sissie anti-war activists twisted the the duties into "provide for the general welfare and promote the common defense". Nobody dies from malnutrition in the greatest Country in the world unless it is self inflicted or they are committing a felony. Americans live in the highest living standard in the world but hypocrite lefties only see the alcoholics and drug addicts who refuse treatment.

 

[Oddball]

We live a country where if you want to bomb someone, there is little or no discussion as to the cost. Firing a $78,000 missile from a 28 million dollar drone at a cost of $3,624.00 per hour to kill people in the middle east who live on less than $1.00 a day is little more than business as usual in America.

However - -

When deciding how much (if anything) to spend on assisting their fellow Americans with malnutrition, homelessness and basic medical care, we sharpen our pencils, break out the calculators bemoan the price, and wring our hands at the thought of asking for an extra penny in tax revenue from billionaires who profit so handsomely from the country that enriches and protects them.

A real whopper of a false dichotomy.