You must pay taxes kid otherwise second pic would look like a wild uncontaminated forest populated by multiple animal and species.
Well, you’re wrong.
The disaster hit areas will get funds. It will be rebuilt. But none of that happens overnight. The US has spent $1.79T on disasters since 1980. Hurricane Katrina alone costed about 190 Iron Dome Systems.
I get that there’s always more we can do, and trust me I really dislike that a ton of our budget goes towards war and military. But I think people forget how absolutely massive the destruction is in some of these disasters and how much it’ll cost to rebuild. I mean the conservative end of cost from Helene is eleven years of 100% of the funds annually allocated toward FEMA. And that’s just a single disaster.
We’re still spending FEMA money on the 2013 Colorado Flood because these disasters are that destructive, the 2017 California wildfires are still a 15 million a year recovery operation that’s still on-going. There’s even $15B earmarked for COVID-19 and it’ll likely be the late 2020s or early 2030s when we finally see that fall off the FEMA spreadsheet.
I’m not trying to defend the wasteful expenses on military that we do, but things like those missiles in the picture are minuscule to the massive amount of destruction these disasters bring. And I think it’s important to highlight that because it hopefully gives people some clue to the true cost of climate change.
Yeah, but you get the best murdered infant blood that money can buy!!!
Israel and Joe Biden - making sure only the freshest and youngest blood ends up covering the hands of Americans, willing or otherwise!
(Judging by the many rabid self-annointed Biden protectors even here, not all those willing to soak their hands in the blood of “brown” infants are Trumpists)
Its just American foreign policy
Calling the war for independence a revolution is an insult to that word. Revolution happened in Hatti, France, and Russia. What happened in America was just an “under new management”, one George for another.
Ya’ll know that Israel got the nuclear fissile material for their first nukes by a Zionist stealing it from the US firm NUMEC and clandestinely shipping it to Israel, right?
The CIA and NRC were very much convinced of this in 1976 and then … for some mysterious reason it was never fully investigated.
How are your tax dollars going to the rockets on the right?
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy — to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
Benjamin Netanyahu, 2019
One of the main sources of Hamas income is stolen UN aid for Palestine
And also the fact that all arms manufacturers are public companies, invested in by global hedge funds which any wealthy investor from Tehran, to Moscow, to Washington will be heavily invested in.
We live in a global economy of asset management. It doesn’t matter which government invests the tax dollars in which firms, as long as the money flows in the wealthy investors profit, then use those profits to promote more wars (among other things) to drive more profits.
Fair enough.
And also any munitions that were lost in any failed military operations during the EXTENSIVE occupation of the middle east by US armed forced