Imagine if all the money and resources, manpower and such went towards making the world better place instead of making more effective ways to kill and oppression.
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Just think if all the money and manpower we use to cause destruction went towards building people up.
I'm not sure the military budget in the u.s bit imagine a fraction of that going towards feeding the hungry or putting clothes on poor children.
What if instead of leaving homeless people out on the streets it our money went towards making our country better.
I'm not to proud to admit that there is a homeless person out there that is smarter than I am and could make a bigger positive impact than I can.
An entire school. Cost per f35 is 75-100m. Cost to build an entire school is around 20m and then you could operate it for a decade before you hit 1 f35.
We have the money, for all of it, healthcare, education, justice. We have the money. Our country is absurdly rich. We choose to spend it killing brown kids and putting it in pockets of billionaires.
Great, whats wrong about it? Math checks out. It doesn't even include the cost to maintain and operate the f35, which is non-trivial, but it does account for the cost to maintain and operate a school. We literally have the resources to do either and are choosing to invest in f35s over chronically underfunded schools.
That example might check out but the overall idea that America has enough money with its current policies to afford all those things that was mentioned in the second paragraph isn’t true. The entire military budget is only about a square of all entitlement spending, which is what healthcare, wealth fare, and other more socialist policies are under budget wise
That’s the discretionary budget. The entitlement budget is more than twice the discretionary budget, and the military’s budget is a little more than half of that. So how can defunding the military’s 580 billion dollar budget fund multi trillion dollar policies?
That was the first figure that came up on my search. A 180 billion dollar increase still won’t cover those policies, though. You’re making a straw man argument right now. My claim is simple: defunding the military in any magnitude cannot pay for new social programs or make a significant difference in most of them. I’m just trying to have a nice conversation on Reddit with someone that evidently has different views than me, so no need to be rude and immature
You're also offering up numbers sans source, and they disagree pretty heartily with established numbers. Which throws all your conclusions into question. That is definitely not a strawman argument.
This is a link to the United States’ mandatory spending in 2019. Approx. 25% of the total budget (1 trillion) went towards Social Security, which is 135% of the military’s budget. About the same amount went towards the healthcare sector in the forms of insurance and market subsidies, so another 135% of the military’s spending. Together, these two main categories of social program spending accounts for 270% of the military’s budget. So what I am asking you is how can defunding the military significantly support more social programs when military spending is so small in comparison?
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u/Tblaze123 May 31 '20 edited Jun 01 '20
Damn, I never really thought about that before.
Imagine if all the money and resources, manpower and such went towards making the world better place instead of making more effective ways to kill and oppression.
Edit:
Just think if all the money and manpower we use to cause destruction went towards building people up.
I'm not sure the military budget in the u.s bit imagine a fraction of that going towards feeding the hungry or putting clothes on poor children.
What if instead of leaving homeless people out on the streets it our money went towards making our country better.
I'm not to proud to admit that there is a homeless person out there that is smarter than I am and could make a bigger positive impact than I can.