We can't afford anything until it's time for war.

[Eman623]

Link?

ChatGPT - Social Programs vs Defense Spending

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[BackAgain]

ChatGPT - Social Programs vs Defense Spending

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Thank you.

I use AI, more often now.

But I can’t help but see its political programming being pretty obvious.

Due credit to the ChatGPT version, though. They often include links to some solid original sources.

 

[Eman623]

Thank you.

I use AI, more often now.

But I can’t help but see its political programming being pretty obvious.

Due credit to the ChatGPT version, though. They often include links to some solid original sources.

If you ask for pure statistics, it's usually pretty good. As long as you watch out for hallucinations.

 

[BackAgain]

If you ask for pure statistics, it's usually pretty good. As long as you watch out for hallucinations.

I have found it kind of entertaining to give it some challenges. It sometimes acknowledges that it worked off of an “assumption.”

I figured as much. When it comes to the programming, LGILGO. tm.

Liberal Garbage In Liberal Garbage Out.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Actually, it is very popular. But you only read right wing garbage because that's what you are. Obama and Obamacare have nothing to do with this topic. The topic is that we are spending 1.3 million per minute on this war. Canada is not spending anything. So STFU.

We are you so instinctivey angry?

 

[jacksonlamb]

It is money well spent.

Based on the most recent federal spending data, the U.S. spends roughly 3–4 times more on social programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other mandatory benefits) than on the military.

 

[Votto]

We spend several times what we spend on war for social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the innumerable other social programs.

You know what we also spend more on than war? Interest on the national debt.

You want more money for free stuff? Reduce deficit spending.

Neither party will because once they are in power they grab the credit card.

Just wait till the Left wing loons get back into power and want to spend $100 trillion on fighting the air.

 

[Bleipriester]

Yeah. OK. Whatever excuse you want to tell yourself.

According to your logic the US needs to spent $175 billion to defend Iran that faces an illegal war of aggression. There is no way you get around this now.

 

[Hafar1014]

All of you who love quoting Rev. King miss this comment:

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

We can't afford to nationalize health care. We can't afford free education. We should not forgive student loan debt because that's unfair. We need to end Social Security. We just can't afford to keep spending. Until we decide to wage war. This war is estimated to cost 1.3 million dollars per minute.

The $1.3-Million-a-Minute War​

Here are some ideas of what the war money could be used for instead. My calculations are conservative, based on Pentagon reporting that the first six days of the war cost $11.3 billion — and even that incomplete tally amounted to more than $1.3 million a minute.

• For a bit more than two weeks of this war, we could offer free college education to every American family earning less than $125,000 annually, at a cost of around $30 billion a year.
• For less than three weeks of war, or $35 billion, we could run a nationwide pre-K program for 3- and 4-year-olds.
• For $75 million, about an hour’s worth of war, we could provide three books free to every child in America who is living under the poverty line, according to Kyle Zimmer of First Book, a nonprofit that works on early literacy. Research suggests that books like these can help get children reading and improve their outcomes.
• A woman dies in the United States every two hours, on average, from cervical cancer. Screening all uninsured women who need it would cost perhaps $1 billion and could save hundreds of lives, according to Dr. Linda Eckert, a cervical cancer expert at the University of Washington. That’s less than 13 hours of the war bill.
• We could get glasses to all 2.3 million low-income schoolchildren in the United States who need them but don’t have them. The base cost would be about $300 million, according to Vision to Learn, a nonprofit that does this work. The bill would be what we spend on four hours of this war.
• For about $34 billion a year, less than three weeks of war, we could restore health insurance subsidies that the Trump administration let expire last year. One analysis predicted an additional 8,800 preventable American deaths as a result.

The war money would save even more lives if we allocated part of it abroad. Indeed, we spent more on the first three days of war than we spent ($4 billion) on all humanitarian aid in 2025. Consider what we could achieve internationally:

• For $400 million or less, a bit more than five hours of war, we could deworm all children in need worldwide, according to Evidence Action, a nonprofit that works on deworming. This would result in stronger, healthier children and adults.
• For $380 million, less than five hours of war, we could provide vitamin A supplementation for the 190 million children who need it. Helen Keller Intl, a nonprofit engaged in this work, says this would prevent up to 480,000 child deaths each year and virtually eliminate blindness from vitamin A deficiency.
• About one day’s worth of war spending could save more than 350,000 lives from malaria, through a rigorously studied screening and prevention program, according to Esther Duflo, an economist at M.I.T.’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
• For $4.3 billion, less than three days of the war bill, we could largely end the most terrible form of malnutrition, called severe wasting. That would save about 1.5 million children’s lives annually. We would accomplish something historic: For the first time in the history of humanity, large numbers of children would no longer be starving to death.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/opinion/iran-war-cost.html

Our priorities as a nation are really screwed up. We would rather kill people than take care of our own.

Europe spends more on social programs and its not working in fact its wrecking their economies increasing living costs and taxes lowering the living standard. THat renewable energy and immigration is forcing many in Europe to leave

 

[Hafar1014]

King told WHITES to judge us by the content of our character.

We did and thats the problem.

 

[westwall]

By Republicans only. How about that?

Obummercare was supposed to be "affordable".

Turns out it isn't.

Turns out the only people who did well with it, are the insurance companies and the fraudsters who have been screwing the American taxpayers.

That's not a repub position, that's a factual one.

 

[jacksonlamb]

Obummercare was supposed to be "affordable".

Turns out it isn't.

Turns out the only people who did well with it, are the insurance companies and the fraudsters who have been screwing the American taxpayers.

That's not a repub position, that's a factual one.

Because GOP keeps trying to make it unaffordable.

 

[IM2]

We did and thats the problem.

Whites like you never have, and THAT'S the problem.

 

[IM2]

According to your logic the US needs to spent $175 billion to defend Iran that faces an illegal war of aggression. There is no way you get around this now.

No, that's your logic. Mine is that we don't need to spend one red cent because we should not be in this war with Iran.

 

[Hafar1014]

No, that's your logic. Mine is that we don't need to spend one red cent because we should not be in this war with Iran.

The war ius against Iran China Russia Cuba Venezuela has been converted. This is the axis of evil

 

[IM2]

ChatGPT - Social Programs vs Defense Spending

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Chat GPT is not the federal budget.

 

[Hafar1014]

Because GOP keeps trying to make it unaffordable.

Democrats created this flawed plan its all on them. We arent going to just dump money into it to cover up their mistakes.

 

[IM2]

The war ius against Iran China Russia Cuba Venezuela has been converted. This is the axis of evil

Wrong.

 

[IM2]

Democrats created this flawed plan its all on them. We arent going to just dump money into it to cover up their mistakes.

Wrong again.

 

[Unkotare]

King told WHITES to judge us by the content of our character.

You are an unrepentant racist.