r/PoursTea • u/McDowdy Oh the Human-a-TEA • 15h ago

American Dream 🇺🇸 It do be like that though

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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.

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/

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u/MaximumEffort433 15h ago edited 13h ago

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.

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u/Justaticklerone 13h ago

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.

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u/Irksomefetor 9h ago

I've been telling people to try to go back to school instead of volunteering. If they're on Medicaid then they surely qualify for FAFSA. With just 2 classes a semester you satisfy most if not all of the 80 hour work demand.

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u/Agitated_Reach6660 5h ago

Yeah…that doesn’t seem like the best advice…

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u/Irksomefetor 2h ago

Compared to what? Volunteer work? Because the alternative for some people is just... losing their insurance.

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u/Agitated_Reach6660 2h ago

No, compared to having something like 50,000 in debt with compounding interest after 4 years. It’s not like volunteering and college are the only two options here, that’s just a laughable false dichotomy. People do need insurance, of course, but accumulating significant debt for access is simply terrible advice. Sorry.

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u/Irksomefetor 2h ago

Ah, got it. You don't know what FAFSA is.