PENTAGON DATA:America has spent $250 MILLION A DAY on war every single day for the last 16 years

[nmgaucho]

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[Angry Dragon]

1. a lot of money

[trusty elf]

2. obscene

[hlthe2b]

3. Inflicting suffering at home (as well, in some cases, on innocents, abroad)

[onethatcares]

4. and

Single payer is just to expensive for us to handle.

[democratisphere]

5. To what end?

[Sancho]

6. Some of us have been fighting the MIC since Korea and Vietnam...

and the monster continues to grow.

The real threat to the US way of life is the spending on the military.

[shanny]

7. As has been asked recently:

We can't afford to educate our children, rebuild our infrastructure, or provide health care for our people, so what exactly are they defending?

[SHRED]

13. Exactly

[rurallib]

8. From a wise man a few years back

For Republicans now war is a political weapon at home to show how tough they are - using our kids and our money and our future.

[rickford66]

9. But a nickel a year per person was considered too much for PBS.

[Blues Heron]

10. nothing we can do

got to accept that the MIC has got us right where they want us - acting like it's WWII every day.

We're fighting people that literally drive around in pickup trucks and we can't wrap this up? What?

[malaise]

11. What someone needs to tell me is WTF are they fighting about or for

because the current administration is hellbent on removing every social gain delivered to Americans. They are also willing to tear up the Constitution. It seems to me that this is naked raw imperialism at play.

[SHRED]

12. Eisenhower warned us

[SHRED]

14. But we can't have publicly funded elections?

[SHRED]

15. Pigs at the trough

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[lindysalsagal]

16. Imagine that money spent on education and infrastructure, see solar power r&d, hospitals..

We will never learn.

[Botany]

17. But we have to cut "meals on wheels?"

time to get out of Afghanistan it is a no win war