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Imagine thinking that's why we don't have well-funded social services.
In 2020, when corporations that had just received three years of outrageously large tax cuts and stock buybacks were frightened of losing revenue, the Repub government fabricated trillions of dollars in handouts to pass around with little to no oversight.
It is not the spending on Raytheon that is preventing spending on citizens at home. It is that half the country has oppositional defiant disorder about any service or policy that would help poor people.
And this right here is an example of someone not knowing how their own government works.
Never said there wasn't.
I'm just pointing out that you don't even know how your own government works, that is, if you're even American.
Gee, I didn't know not being American means you're automatically Russian. Either way, you're intentionally missing the entire point of my replies. You don't know how your own government works. Helping Ukraine in no way is draining tax payer money, ya dunce.
...you do realize that Ukraine is only getting a surplus of US equipment that was going to be replaced? Totaling the amount of those Ukraine defense bills? There is no money being exchanged, lol.
Because you've been fucking duped by republicans ya dunce.
It's absolutely not the reason lol. The reason you can't invest in domestic programs like universal healthcare or post-secondary education financing reform is because half of your fellow Americans oppose it, and vote accordingly. Convincing others matters.