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

[westwall]

That was answered a long time ago, and it has nothing to with our discussion.

You can't break it, and you never will.

And there will be a mandate again.

It has everything to do with the conversation and you refuse to answer it.

Good bye sock of im2stupid.

 

[jacksonlamb]

It has everything to do with the conversation and you refuse to answer it.

Good bye sock of im2stupid.

I gave you the correct answer, sock of RobertW

 

[dudmuck]

Obamacare was just an opening for massive fraud. Dumocraps taking advantage of the fraud opportunities love it, everyone else hates it.

Obamacare is private insurance. If there is fraud, its on those private companies providing it.

 

[Independent thinker]

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.

Well, if it weren't for idiots such as you, we wouldn't be 39 trillion dollars in debt.

 

[theHawk]

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.

We’re $40 trillion in debt because of welfare scammers and the DNC laundering money to themselves.

Deport all illegals, end most welfare programs, stop foreign aid, imprison corrupt democrats, and our budgets would have surpluses again.

 

[jacksonlamb]

Well, if it weren't for idiots such as you, we wouldn't be 39 trillion dollars in debt.

At least a 1/3d chalked up to Trump.

 

[Dorian Mode]

We’re $40 trillion in debt because of welfare scammers and the DNC laundering money to themselves.

Deport all illegals, end most welfare programs, stop foreign aid, imprison corrupt democrats, and our budgets would have surpluses again.

I completely agree, but would add imprison corrupt republicans as well. Both sides are chin deep in corruption. This government is one big mafia organized crime syndicate.

 

[dudmuck]

We’re $40 trillion in debt because of welfare scammers and the DNC laundering money to themselves.

Deport all illegals, end most welfare programs, stop foreign aid, imprison corrupt democrats, and our budgets would have surpluses again.

Bill Clinton had reduced public debt from 1998 to 2000. And there was a surplus in FY2000. Did republicans ever do that?

 

[theHawk]

Bill Clinton had reduced public debt from 1998 to 2000. And there was a surplus in FY2000. Did republicans ever do that?

That was the Republican House that did that. BJ Clinton signed that into law with gnashing teeth after a long government shutdown.

 

[dudmuck]

That was the Republican House that did that. BJ Clinton signed that into law with gnashing teeth after a long government shutdown.

The shutdowns were in 1995-1996, but the budget surplus was in 1998-2000.
Also republicans have had a majority in the house for more than democrats have had since then. This image shows it, bottom-right side.

 

[theHawk]

Bill Clinton had reduced public debt from 1998 to 2000. And there was a surplus in FY2000. Did republicans ever do that?

Yes you moron, the GOP controlled both houses in Congress since 1995 through 2001. They forced the balanced budget and little BJ was powerless to stop it.

 

[dudmuck]

Yes you moron, the GOP controlled both houses in Congress since 1995 through 2001. They forced the balanced budget and little BJ was powerless to stop it.

the surplus was partly due to bipartisan budget deals. It was from an interplay between tax increases, lower defense spending, and a growing tech sector (tech bubble).

 

[theHawk]

the surplus was partly due to bipartisan budget deals. It was from an interplay between tax increases, lower defense spending, and a growing tech sector (tech bubble).

All thanks to the GOP Congress.

 

[jacksonlamb]

Yes you moron, the GOP controlled both houses in Congress since 1995 through 2001. They forced the balanced budget and little BJ was powerless to stop it.

He could have vetoed it. He had the votes.

It's a policy with which he agreed, and quite a number of dems did as well.

 

[jacksonlamb]

All thanks to the GOP Congress.

all thanks to the bipartisan budgeting deals

 

[dudmuck]

All thanks to the GOP Congress.

OBRA-93 was from democrats.
And Clinton didnt oppose Balanced Budget Act of 97, but signed it.

 

[Matted Joybeard]

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.