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While Cost of Living Soars and Healthcare Taken Away, Trump Spending $1 Billion Per Day in War of Choice With Iran (www.commondreams.org)

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"We can't afford to keep our hospitals open, but we can afford a billion dollars a day to bomb Iran?"

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[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I think I've seen estimates that it would cost $40 billion on the highend to provide housing for houseless people for one year. So, 40 days of spending in this war is equivalent to that. We're vaporizing children on the other side of the globe rather than improving our shithole country.