I say again. The defense budget nor any other current spending is preventing us from having free healthcare. Medicare for All would be significantly cheaper than our current healthcare costs. We're already paying for both defense and healthcare. Switching to M4A would save us money and improve our healthcare experience while completely ignoring the defense budget. We can easily do both. The insurance companies, big pharma, and hospital executives are the ones preventing M4A, not Raytheon.
The most insidious part of this is people will say, "any price to keep us safe." Nevermind that a resource draining military is a catch22 proven idiotic by history time and time again, and we shouldn't be funding it at all. The money we are spending is absolutely not going to keep us safe. It goes to the heads of weapons manufacturers so that they can manipulate governments into buying their products and provke wars to create demand. As a veteran i can tell you it sure as shit doesn't go towards paying members of the military, it doesn't go towards buying top of the line equipment to keep us safe, and definitely not towards maintaining the broke ass equipment that the military has now. Even if you like the military, the best thing you can do is to topple the military industrial complex and advocate for less spending.
We already give a fuck ton of money to healthcare, even more than we give to the defense budget. The problem is that too much of our money goes to lobbying, pharma companies, medical companies, hospital Administrators, and other greedy fucks. We pay health insurance and most of the time they try to screw us over. What we need is paying for stuff that will actually go directly to us. Throwing as much money as possible doesn't help, we need to make sure that the money goes where we want it to go.
Federal Spending budget:
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
Imagine if it was 216-214? That would be impressive.
So many assholes, looking at the votes...
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe WhY bOThEr VoTiNg, being egged on by his palDimitriJessie on social media, to keep his purity intact by not bothering to vote.What the fuck are they defending if we’re all already dead? Fucking greedy bastards
Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Don Davis (D-NC), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), Jared Golden (D-ME), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) and Mary Peltola (D-AK)
Cuellar, of course.
THIS HAS GOT TO FUCKING STOP!!! THE WEAPONS CO.OANIES MUST BE NATIONALIZED!! NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE UNTIL LOBBYISTS ARE IMPRISONED FOR BRIBES! ELECT ME AND I WILL PUT AND END TO THIS BULLSHIT
I'm seeing a lot of "We should have less defense budget and more health care budget" in these comments. But we don't need more health care budget. The existing budget is more than enough to give us universal health care.
I know what you fuckers are really trying to say.
"We should have less defense budget
and more health care budget"Fuck you, tankies
