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Cake day: December 6th, 2023

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  • The military budget isn’t even that large. You realize that Medicare, Medicaid, and Ss all used to be under HHS. They took it out because then people would realize that’s actually where something like 82% of our budget goes.

    And before you go, “military spending is 40% or whatever” that’s literally because they STOPPED including medicare/medicaid/SS (not all of them but I forget which ones) in those budget numbers. In reality, HHS, MC/MC, and SS EACH are larger line items than military spending.



    1. Student loans through FAFSA are not and never were predatory. The real crime is they’re essentially the Kat Williams Bad Credit, No Credit, Unapproved Credit loans made real with no limits and no denials and so colleges, seeing free money (hey look, basically printing money for them, so Federal Reserve-like) jacked prices as high as they could.
    2. People should look at that cause and effect and realize that’s what forcing higher minimum wage does, handing out free money does, unilaterally absolving people of valid debt does, etc. Rather than demanding MORE money (because again, the only winner there is the tax man, every one else loses) they should be demanding answers for:
    3. Why have price of goods unnecessarily increased?
    4. Why has the purchasing power of the dollar gone to shit?
    5. Plot Twist: it’s government the whole way down.