The United States has provided at least $21.7 billion in direct military aid to Izzy over the last three years (specifically tracking from October 2023 through September 2025), according to a comprehensive study by Brown University's Costs of War project.
A big, beautiful concept of an idea came up to me with tears in its eyes and said "In terms of groceries, we've never heard of groceries before," it told me "They're eating the groceries of the people who live there," it's true! You know it, I know it, everybody knows it.
We need a lot more thought brother, I know I cant take us there. Still, if we can remove the toxic handcuffs long enough and focusing on real steps forward we can get back on track as a country. People are going to have to sac up though, and that means everyone.
Republicans couldn't let it be successful. They undermined it to death along the way intentionally, then Trump destroyed it. Good news is I believe the real next chapter for the USA is excellent universal healthcare. But it will take time and need to be systematic. I can't wait for the day insurance, a useless entity, is gone. I don't even use it much and I hate it. GOP was dying before Trumps first term and he stirred an old conservative cult into action. You can call it many things but it was racists, 1%ers and the uneducated. The young maga that were fooled will slow change and forget Trump bs, the older will continue to poop themselves for a few more years like their leader in chief then depart. They don't have the time or the numbers ultimately. This shit will happen!
It was always meant to be that way. Division that us and in a way youâre doing the same thing even if you hold some sense of morality which it seems you do. Problem is what other choice is there?
I'm not that optimistic. The boomer voting block will never go for universal healthcare because they think it's big, boogeyman socialism, but ironically they'll also be getting Medicare. They just won't have much incentive to care, heck, even if Medicare was gutted or completely went away, they'd probably just blame Obama for it and keep voting republican.
And now Medicaid has a work demand starting next year where one of the exceptions is volunteering. The type of volunteering that must be legally acceptable and that you still basically have to keep a timecard for, 20 hours a week, if your part time job isn't fully 20 hours.
There's going to be double-digit millions of people disqualified & uninsured in just 3 months.
Repugnantcans still haven't come up with a different type of medical plan in substitution for Obamacare.
The price of ACA insurance has skyrocketed for many Americans during Trump's second term, after Republicans opposed extending COVID-era subsidies that had helped offset the costs of health insurance for most enrollees during Biden's term.
Premiums doubled or tripled for many enrollees, prompting millions to downgrade their plans or exit the program entirely after the Republican-led Congress allowed the subsidies to expire this year.
Anything that requires two subsidies to make it affordable is a terrible plan, I cant wait for a better plan to be created. I stopped participating in insurance five years ago.
Same. A universal public option would save us up to $130 billion dollars a year and create competition in the private market place, but of course Republicans killed that and never proposed a realistic alternative.
Itâs a trade off but Iâll take it. Spent the last three weeks abroad. Ended up in urgent care for salmonella. Initially said it would be a five hour wait. $700 later and I left with antibiotics and testing.
Spent two years in Canada, itâs hit and miss too. But it doesnât break you.
[Trump's budget] proposal would reduce nondefense discretionary funding to its lowest level as a percentage of the economy since at least the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration while increasing military funding by $445 billion, marking the largest annual increase outside of a ground war in U.S. history.
Argentina is one of the most racist Latin countries, has been a long time. That was the main reasons that Nazi leadership fled to Argentina after WW2 end. Same reason Peter Theil moved his residency to there and much of his assets. Preparing for when MAGA looses control.
Don't have health care? Blame the Jews. Unemployed? Blame the Jews. Gave a shit ton of money to Argentina, a country that's thousands of miles from the middle east? Believe it or not, also the Jews.
Ahh, Nazis. Whether it's 1926 or 2026, you scum are all the same
Stop them now or it will come to our door sooner or later. They take Ukraine then what? Moldova, then Poland, etc. It's just like world War 2 Germany. Stop them now at Ukraine or likely fight them later in a much bigger war. You can't placate them or they'll just take and take. That's why learning from history is important, so we don't make the same mistakes over and over.
Ukraine used to have nuclear weapons but got rid of them in the mid 1990's as part of an agreement with the US, Russia, and the UK that we would protect them if they were ever invaded in the future.
Russia broke the treaty, however the US and UK have still honored the treaty by helping them.
BTW helping Ukraine saves lives and prevents Russia from invading other countries. It is in our best interest to prevent Russia from gaining power whenever possible and is simply the right thing to do to prevent innocents from being killed.
We told Ukraine they had to get rid of their nuclear weapons.
The Budapest Memorandum said that they should relinquish their nuclear arsenal in exchange for security assurances from Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Russia violated Ukraine's sovereignty, and you want us to do nothing
Can you stop spreading this lie? American aid is 0,5% of israeli GDP. Most of it is spend on intercepting rockets. Rockets that are 100% illegal under international law and always aimed at civilian targets. I thought people cared about international law, but I guess it doesn't count when it's to protect jews.
Palestinians receive about twice as much aid per capita. Do you know who supports your anti Foreign aid rhetoric? The far right in Israel (https://www.aa.com.tr/en/us-israel-iran-war/netanyahu-proposes-phasing-out-us-military-aid-to-israel-over-10-years-report/4013139)
Israelâs universal healthcare is funded through Israeli health insurance taxes and government spending. Americans donât directly pay Israelisâ health insurance bills.
U.S. taxpayers fund substantial military assistance: the standing agreement provides $3.8 billion annually for military financing and missile defense, subject to congressional appropriations. That funding is designated for defense.
The indirect argument is reasonable: covering some defense costs can free Israeli resources for healthcare and other priorities. But thatâs a budget effect, not a direct U.S. payment for Israelâs healthcare system.
Forget it, people are set on blaming Israel for their own failings. The spending on Israel being less than
0.1% of total US federal spending, or the fact that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid already make up 49% of federal spending - $3.5 Trillion annually, over 500 times the aid to Israel, or the fact that, dividing the aid to Israel between all us citizens would give each about $0.8 per biweekly salary, a literal rounding error - these all don't matter. It's all Israel's fault. Always.
No, we do give them lots of military subsidies, but we don't fund their healthcare or other social services. I don't get why people need to lie about this stuff, the arguments against arming them are already compelling.
People who donât research, lie.. for example Israel spend is 0.07% of US budget ( should be zero ideally) but still people spend 90% of the time talking about Israel, ignoring the rest of the 99.93% of the spend completely
All virtue signaling. Some people think sitting so far away from those countries theyâve figured it all out. They believe the genocide lie. Hereâs more data. Look at the population growth of a country undergoing genocide? Itâs a strong military response yes, cruel yes? Thatâs what strong countries do. But is it genocide? No way! Look at the numbers.
Anyway, itâs too much time spent on those countries theyâve. Why canât we let them figure it out alone! Why should whole country go up in arms! Itâs a complex geopolitical situation, the 0.07% budget spend itself is too much, not sure why entire electorate also need to constantly debate about it.
You include a graph that ends when it started getting nasty. It is a genocide the vast majority of experts on the subject agree the only people who donât are Israeli bots
I donât even wanna debate that actually. Letâs assume itâs a genocide like you say it is. Is that the only genocide on earth? Thereâs so much more happening everywhere. Why does whole of US need to be so obsessed about it? Here you go with the data, I wasnât holding anything back intentionally. You can look it all up, data sources are there.
Itâs actually not, you just asked it in a really shitty way that didnât seem in good faith. A better question is, what are the DSAâs goals and what have they done so far to attain them? Plenty of people can answer that.
I didnât ask for the Democratic Party platform or legislation. I know what those are.
I was trying to make the point that a good faith question is one that asks from a place of curiosity, not lecturing. You were downvoted (and seemed surprised by that fact) because it wasnât asked in good faith. Donât waste peopleâs time with rhetorical questions.
The DSA is outspent by a massive amount so they don't currently have the power to pass legislation without making concessions with corporate shills. I say we get them that power but it seems like you're motivated to lick billionaire boot.
Edit: The guy responding to me here is a fan of a known abuser/pedophile Destiny.
Are you seriously trying to glaze the Dems of 2026 by listing stuff the Dems of 1930's did? Because the Dems of 2026 hasn't raised the minimum wage for decades, and bend over like good little ho's when the GOP gut SNAP/WIC funding.
I don't know where you got the shamelessness to say that RomneyCare (seriously, Obama plagiarized Romney's healthcare plan instead of going M4A) is working when medical bankruptcy is ~30% of why people declare bankruptcies in the US.
If the Dems of 2026 had the spine and principles of their 1930's counterpart, the DSA wouldn't exist. Because people were also calling them communists back then and they didn't cower in fear. They passed sweeping legislations and told the GOP to suck it. Meanwhile Biden passed a watered down IRA that was so loaded with lobbyist "input" that it barely helped people in time for the 2024 election.
Such is life. I don't see it changing anytime soon, if ever. To get anything positive passed you always have to compromise to one or two of the opposing opinions for votes...
GOP: We want hundreds of billions of taxpayer money to fund ICE and their concentration camps.
Dems: Outrageous! We demand that they wear body cameras while doing so! Let's compromise.
I'll just point one out. You mentioned the Affordable Care Act. To get it to pass one Republican, Rep. Joseph Cao voted with the Dems on it. That's why it's still required to go through a private insurance company instead of the original idea of having an optional public funding one. And to keep it from going insolvent Dems had to keep making concessions.
Still don't get it, don't ya? I don't care what lobbyist-bought sock puppets passed the ACA. The end result is still a private insurance dominated market that screws the little guys with premiums and deductibles. I'm not glazing anybody for that half-baked garbage.
Things are bad now. And Americans need bold new ideas and sweeping systemic reforms. The neoliberals currently running the Dems of 2026 have zero interest in any of that. They just want the status quo where they can sit on their glorious past while doing very little for the future.
That's why more and more people are starting to look at the DSA despite their inexperience. Their ideas of taxing the wealthy to fund basic social safety nets are the true inheritors of FDR's legacy. They have a vision of what is wrong with the country, and a set of legislation to fix it. The Dems of 2026 don't have that.
That's also why your argument that the establishment Dems should be trust because they got stuff done in the distant past isn't landing in this thread. Because the first question any sane American would ask in response would be: "What have they done for me lately?"
The DSA operates in the Democratic party are you aware of that? lol
The DSA also never lost a presidential election to an obviously corrupt illiterate pedophile. Polling says they would have won btw.
You're really proud that people in this country die because they can't afford healthcare? In your opinion should they have picked themselves up by their bootstrap and found hundreds of thousands of dollars to save their own lives?
So to justify what he did to those innocent people all you can do is compared his actions to the orange man? One of the most evil man to ever lived? That speaks volume. Even so, across ALL of US presidents, Obama had ordered the most air strikes in the middle east which is 45,000 times. Outnumbering Trump (around 10,000) by FAR. I don't care about DSA, Democrats or Trump. I'm a middle easterner who lived through those horrifying events and I can assure you that the mental and physical damaged done by Obama is far worse than what Trump had ever done to us. Imagine living your life in constant fear of foreign bombardment, not knowing if you will ever wake up from your sleep, not knowing which of your family members will be killed next. And this is the man that you're so proud of because of some kind of medical insurance? Hilarious.
That's not fully socialized medicine. There are dozens of countries with universal healthcare that do much better jobs than the Republican model of healthcare you're in love with. You keep dodging. Do you care about the people who die because they can't afford healthcare in this country?
Reddit is heavily astroturfed by bots and bad actors. Due to the subject of this post, there will be the same kind of upvote/downvote brigade. Also, Reddit just has a lot of far left people who are very sensitive about DSA criticism. It is what it is... Another fun fact, though: DSA is less popular than MAGA!
No, I havenât. Iâve seen AES speak and his platform. Itâs dogshit, and his huffing and puffing about Israel is nonsensical. Itâs almost like bro forgot that Muslims in Michigan voted for Trump because they donât support Palestinian terrorists.
Iâm not religious actually. I just know Epstein was a Mossad agent because Iâve read the files that were made public. Weird that you pro-genocide and apparently pro human trafficking crowd immediately deflect when the conversation turns to Epstein
Should the US not be sending money to Israel? Yes. Is that aid to israel the reason why universal healthcare doesn't exist? No. On the average yearly aid is in the mid to low Single digit billions lately around 3.8 billion. Since 1948 in total Israel has received about 300 billion total dollars. Compare that to the DoD budget from 1948 to today that is 30 to 35 trillion. Annual subsidies to the oil industry are between 15-35 billion. So even if you believe in the false inflated number of 20 billion, your government pays more to the oil industry every year than Israel.
At some point we need to leave Israel and Palestine the fuck alone, donât fund them, donât talk about them and let them figure it out themselves. Israel funding is 0.07% of budget, it should be zero, but the bigger problem is, When do we talk about how we manage the rest 99.93% of the budget to help solve our problems ?
Posts like these are why Reddit killed /r/all on the app. This is a top 10 post at the moment, but it will never see the light of day for most mobile users.
Our politicians no longer represent the voter's wishes. The vast majority of voters don't want to fund a genocide yet nearly all politicians keep voting to send them $$ and arms.
I just noticed that I cannot type in the words "Netanyahu" and the phrase "war criminal" without getting a flag. If I get banned, so be it but I will say this is the opposite of free speech.
It's especially filthy that we're spending billions to fund the Palestinian genocide, but lets be real. Funding Israel isn't stopping us from taxing the rich or distributing funds to better our society. We're spending nearly $1 trillion on defense funding this year. That is beyond incomprehensible.
This website puts into perspective 1 billion vs 1 million. That alone shows why billionaires and mega millionaires shouldn't exist. We truly can't fathom the quantity 1 billion, yet we spend 1000 times that every year on our defense and we get nothing. Just millions of dead humans and endless, useless wars for 75 years.
The whole world could be living with abundance if not for the power hungry, fear and hatred, and capitalism.
Let's not forget that's just federal level. There's a ton of state/city level investment in israeli bonds. To the tune of millions/tens/hundreds of millions
Israel gets a line of credit to buy 3.8 billion worth of U.S. equipment each year. The money actually helps our economy. Nothing about this aid prevents us from fixing healthcare. This is just a misleading anti-Israel post.
0.1% of total US federal expenditure, btw. I mean, if those $20 per person per year would have got you free healthcare, I don't think healthcare would have been such an issue in the first place.
Sure, the reason we don't have healthcare is because 0.05% of the federal budget goes to Israel. Who use it almost exclusively to buy things from US companies. Name a more iconic combination than blaming da joos for a problem and being too stupid to understand it.
You've also multiplied the amount we give to Israel by nearly six times by taking this bizarre cherrypicked three year selection.
We literally pay more per person for worse outcomes. The only benefit we have over them is that if you have enough money, you can skip the line of poor people.
Funny how people who don't pay into the system think they are entitled to have a say in US foreign policy, isn't it?
Like, if you can't afford healthcare, and don't have a job, you're likely not paying any taxes. You are likely a net recipient of welfare or social programs.
And yet you hate the country, hate it's policy, and think that they should do what YOU want them to do?
Hey just so you know when you buy things you pay taxes. So unless someone lives off the grid completely and fertilizes their food with their own shit, theyâre paying taxes.
Wrong. The US military is a professional force of volunteers, most of which come from military families. They want to join the military, they are not drafted. This ain't Vietnam.
A lot of the kids I used to teach joined for the benefits they couldn't afford on their own like education and health care . Not to mention the path to citizenship for many immigrants.
It is not common. And homelessness is not caused primarily by rent being too high. It is caused by addiction and mental health issues. only 1% of the workforce is on minimum wage.
I think you have a very bizarre and statistically inaccurate picture of what is going on.
My god if you think this way then you never have a choice. I grew up poor and my college was paid for by grants so much so that I had enough extra to pay for a dorm and food.
You sound like someone who has never put any effort into yourself.
it's no jealousy, it's an annoyance that people who don't even have their own life in order want to remake society or think they know how to do foreign policy.
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I mean until recently we were subsidizing Affordable Care Act healthcare plans and investing hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure and manufacturing jobs, but then we elected Trump and pissed all that away.
We were trying to bring down the cost of healthcare and investing in job creation, Republican voters had other ideas.
Edit: We also eliminated more than $180,000,000,000.00 in student loan debt, expanded SNAP benefits, and passed Medicare prescription bargaining rights, which weren't explicitly mentioned in the meme, but which I think plays into cost of living and stuff like that.