Can anyone think of something better that the US government could have spent $7 billion of taxpayer money on instead of bombing one of the world’s poorest countries?

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The military industrial complex works because the politicians pad the contracts with the bomb makers and then they and their friends pocket the excess. You could do the same thing with contracts for homeless shelters, parks, libraries, fixing pot holes, clean water projects, rural broadband, and any other public works project. The politicians don't though, they basically always choose bombs. That says an awful lot about them doesn't it? How many single days has the US military blown up enough ordinance that it could have paid for the "unaffordable" repairs to the water system in Flint since we all forgot that was even a thing?
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Can anyone think of something better that the US government could have spent $7 billion of taxpayer money on instead of bombing one of the world’s poorest countries?
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I want to make a joke, but not about this. Never about this. War is disgusting and I’m ashamed how much of it my tax dollars enable.
Imagine how good it would be for your economy if that money was spent on building infrastructure, some road upgrades some new bridges, reinstate the rail, build some hospitals and schools. Or even just a tax break for workers.
whichever president, the war mongers and military lobbyists rule the world, didn’t trump just increased the military budget? Kennedy would have cut the military budget that’s the reason he never had a chance of winning the elections whatever party he would present.
They could have just not spent it. They could have just not printed it and not spent it. Why do we have to spend things? This is why I hate budgets. You don't have to spend it. We could just not spend it. And believe it or not, that would have a positive effect on everyone. Even people in places like El Salvador using the dollar who, just like US Americans, have no say whatsoever in where the money that is stolen from us goes.