The famous Ukraine aid over which there’s been incessant bickering in the Senate constitutes under 0,3 % of the total US budget.
The specific amount of aid over which the bickering is happening would finance the US government expenditures for 27 minutes.
It’s an absolute non-issue in economic terms. So ask yourself, why is such a puny, insignificant amount provoking so much rhetoric from people who readily signed off on gargantuan sums to all sorts of special interests? Might this be precisely because they signed off on those gargantuan sums?
Of course, the people who are capable of understanding this already have. And the eager fools who take the moaning of JD Vance and Co seriously don’t have the brain power to understand what I’m talking about. They probably think this is a post about Ukraine instead of their eternal, sad gullibility.
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The Ukraine stuff with Vance is sad because I otherwise like him. But it’s a pretty glaring flaw.
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I’ve heard that 10 million migrants crossed illegally into the US during the Biden administration. And there’s zero serious proposals on how to stop that. It shows how interested our politicians are in this issue.
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This is part of a common misperception among Americans. Polls show that people massively overestimate the amount of money that goes to other countries. There is a widespread belief that the US spends tons of money on “foreign aid”, and if we only cut back on this extravagant foreign aid spending we could fund all sorts of domestic priorities.
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“foreign aid” from the US is mostly a scam where we “give” money to other countries, but make them give it back to us by purchasing material goods and contracts from politically well-connected US suppliers/contractors. The money never leaves the US.
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