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Originally Posted by lozen
Damn 1.9 trillion your right. I must have fallen for one of those right wing talking points. My Bad Apologies
Though I am right on US spending compared to the rest of Nato
You definitely have so i am glad you are suspicious of that. Maybe i and e_d and others are having some impact.
What the right wing talking point is, is a hyper focus on how much 'individual events' cost (health care, ukraine) as if everything is paid for with new money as opposed to a re-allocation of the existing budget to other priorities. Something the same media never raises when it comes to things like tax cuts for the wealthy or corporations.
Do you know why they do lozen? Ask yourself why it matters how much of the US military budget they dedicate to Ukraine if they deem it better spent there than on other priorities? Ask yourself what the taxpayer gains if that same money is not sent to Ukraine and just goes into another Aircraft carrier or the amounts of military contract money they are not required to account for?
Suddenly you are roused to want to demand to know how it is being paid for, who else is contributing, etc, etc, and if the Ukraine war ends tomorrow and the same money disappears into dark money military holes to never be accounted for you and MSM will hardly raise a question about it, even if the spending remains exactly the same.
Do you know why that is?