Correct.
Robert Reich @RBReich
3 Oct 2021
So let me get this straight: we can afford to spend $700 billion a year on defense, but we can’t afford to spend $350 billion a year to defend ourselves against the climate crisis?

Oct 3, 2021 · 11:16 PM UTC

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We can’t afford to spend $700 billion on defense or on Biden’s multi-trillion dollar plans. We have $28 trillion in national debt (over 100% of GDP) and a projected $2.1 trillion deficit. Reckless spending on one does not justify reckless spending on the other.
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If fighting the climate crisis means subsidizing burning wood chips for fuel i am out.
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I don't know are you paying your taxes smh
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#LearnMMT
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Defense is also tech sponsoring ponderwall.com/index.php/202…

Microsoft To Make US$22 Billion Worth of AR Headsets for US Army

The AR interface commissioned by the US military is referred to as an “Integrated Visual Augmentation System” (IVAS). It will use Microsoft’s HoloLens.

ponderwall.com
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Correction. We can’t afford any of it. The federal budget is a ponzi scheme. We have to borrow more money to pay the interest on the money we owe. What we spend it on is immaterial unless we quit spending ourselves into oblivion. @RBReich
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Meanwhile we should be spending 1.5 trillion per year on climate change. 🤷🏽‍♂️
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The world is upside down!
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The climate change expenditure would be pointless whereas the national defense budget is not. Pretty simple really.
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Incorrect. We can't afford either one.
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