Exactly. Israel already received tremendous amount of money way before the conflict. And yet, US Congress voted to allow more military aid package to Israel. The money could have gone to those who need them more, like domestic and to Ukraine.
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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We send $5,000,000,000 in outright charity to Israel.
That’s $100,000,000 per state that could be used to fix potholes or help Americans in other ways, but we’re silly geese who 100% support neglecting our own people in favor of war, so we’re getting what we voted for.
crackajack@reddthat.com 1 year ago
masquenox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Israel already received tremendous amount of money way before the conflict.
The conflict has been ongoing since 1949.
rchive@lemm.ee 1 year ago
US sends money to Palestine, too. So does much of Europe.
stevehobbes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s been a closer to 3B for a while. Against a budget of $1T. It’s not even a rounding error.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s always cute how warmongers pretend that those billions wouldn’t make a huge difference for struggling Americans.
stevehobbes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know what in that sentence gives you the confidence to call me a warmonger.
And also, no, it wont really. Unless you redefine “huge difference”. We spend $522B on social/economic assistance programs at the federal level. So a 0.005% increase? Hardly a huge difference.
polarbear@lemmy.world 1 year ago
how did yoy get 0.005%? 3 x 100 / 522 is a 0.575 percent increase
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, just that 3 billion comes out to $60,000,000 if divided equally between all 50 states.
By any stretch that is huge.
You’re absolutely using the warmonger’s logic to support your position here.