• joatmasterofnone@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The military budget isn’t even that large. You realize that Medicare, Medicaid, and Ss all used to be under HHS. They took it out because then people would realize that’s actually where something like 82% of our budget goes.

    And before you go, “military spending is 40% or whatever” that’s literally because they STOPPED including medicare/medicaid/SS (not all of them but I forget which ones) in those budget numbers. In reality, HHS, MC/MC, and SS EACH are larger line items than military spending.

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      11 months ago

      Bro I’m not engaging with a person who wants to end all foreign aid. That could not possibly be a worse position to hold.