An “investment in our national security” my ass. jacobin.com/2022/12/fiscal-y…

The New US Military Budget Enriches Private Contractors at the Cost of Human Well-Being

Congress will soon vote on an $850 billion military budget that would lavish over $400 billion on private contractors. It would be a massive redistribution of wealth to for-profit hands — at the same...

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“According to an October Census Bureau survey, 41 percent of US households say it’s very or somewhat difficult to pay their typical household expenses.”

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Replying to @marwilliamson
It is because of capitalism.
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of course it is always has been but now families have to buy 400 dollar phones-cheapest possible- for their kids and a car so wow it's damn near impossible to make it these days-I know the phones they want are like a 800 bucks how the hell parents do that?
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The money printing machine is umbilically linked to the MIC. Every year on top of the 0.8 trill, and all the military “assistance” & regime change funds; there’s 1.5 trill that appears and then disappears. There’s no other human venture that amasses so much, in so few hands.
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