All of this spending to: Check notes Kill children from countries you never knew existed, in military operations that are completely illegal.
Illegal is so... subjective. You just beat em down until they admit that they were wrong.
A beatdown to the American economy sounds like a good strategy. Iran is proving that you can topple down a giant like the Us just by targeting key sectors
Money for schools
Oh, that money is definitely going to schools.
It's getting there fast and making a large impact.
Schools, Research Centers, Cancer Drug Manufacturing, Orphanages ...
Well, it’s full of toxic fuels.
The money is actually going to defense contractors, an obscene percentage of which goes to like one guy who probably hunts poor people for fun on the weekends.
The money is actually going to
It's not about who receives the money, it's about where that money would have went if it wasn't put in the missile.
With respect, it's also about who receives the money.
RTX makes the Tomahawk.
In 2016, the stock was at 59. Now it's at almost 200. A return of 338%. That's about the same rate of return as the S&P 500 in the same timeframe. The difference being, the worst performing stocks in the S&P are regularly swapped out.
So, yeah, these guys are pretty much a sure bet to make money.
When you're a billionaire, pretty much everyone else is a poor people... and, as an added bonus, you get to use Tomahawk missiles to hunt them.
It's a myth that the US could fund it's healthcare if it didn't fund the military. This is because we already spend more on healthcare than the military already. By a lot.
Medicare alone has a similar budget to the entire Pentagon!
We're not too cheep for healthcare, we're getting ripped off!
We spend more on health care per person and have worse outcomes than any country in the global north.
That has a lot to do with privatizing all our medical facilities and wasting a ton of money through private insurance.
We spend more on healthcare than the government spends on the military, the government does not.
The money for children's cancer research goes into ballrooms.
You can't deny it, but the tomahawks are kind of made for schools in distant countries.
They were made for fighting Russia like most of the major weapon systems, but haven't had any opportunity to do so.
I would be curious how much these missiles are marked up.
It can't actually cost like $14.9 million in materials and production costs and then $100k profit for the company can it?
I wonder if it's like $5million production cost and then $10million profit
I'm pretty sure these are one of those "it costs $1 million to manufacture and then 14 million to guarantee they work and everything is documented." things.
Kills people.
Unpopular opinion perhaps, but same thing applies to that US lunar launch.
I think the war budget is much higher though?
But nobody dies from the lunar launch
Indirectly they do. Every dollar spent there is a dollar that doesn't go to the homeless or those who can't afford healthcare.
Ok sure, i'm not arguing the lunar missions are a good way of spending money. But i really would rather have them spend money sending American citizens to the moon than have them spend it sending explosives to Iran.
The rocket is the real tyrant.
Funding at the federal level is never an either/or choice, it’s an active, explicit declaration of what the administration wants.
Perpetuating this specious framing provides cover for malignant sociopaths.
Where's the CUM tank?
RAM
It's a turbojet engine tho
Do we know an artist?
Clearly fake, there's no raptor anywhere.
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