Biden drafts $100 billion foreign aid package, including money for Israel and Ukraine
Biden drafts $100 billion foreign aid package, including money for Israel and Ukraine
Biden is preparing a $100 billion foreign aid request for Congress, including money for Israel and Ukraine
How about 100 billion to Americans struggling or cancel some student loans. We can't have affordable healthcare. But we can keep sending billions to other country.
How about you tax billionaires and do both.
You mean that other initiative he's been working on that the Republicans have been fighting tooth and nail against?
That would cover about 5% of all student loan debt.
What's the difference between a billion and a trillion?
About a trillion.
Current US student debt: $1.77 trillion.
It is not about the money Fred. If they wanted to, they would find the money - politicians always do. The only time when there is no money available is when they don’t want to do a certain „project“
If my government could just give every American just 0.0000005% of that most people would be in a mich better place economically and mentally in this country.
About 300 million US citizens so that's $333. Less than the stimulus checks the first 2 years of covid
Give everyone 5k? Like more Biden bucks?
The problem is always that we small people never have the big picture of such things. Sure, 100 billion is much, but one never gives money for free. There is something about it that will give USA as a country a huge advantage.
In case anyone is wondering, that’s $300 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Not just tax payers, every single person
Or about $12 for every single person in the entire world.
On a separate note, war machines are very expensive and definitely overpriced.
I just drafted my vote for someone else.
Who else can someone vote in a way that doesn't help a Republican (likely Trump) become the next POTUS?
You break the 2 party system that forces you to vote for someone you dislike or someone you dislike more.
(Redacted: Tons of American Presidents have been third party.
Reason: a) Thought Theodore Roosevelt won as bull moose and b) misunderstood when I heard about "Democratic-Republican", "Federalist", and "Whig" Presidents.)
The modern delusion that a vote for a GOOD candidate is a wasted vote is horse shit.
I don't personally believe either decision is going to save America from misinformation, extremism and possibly collapse in the long run.
Why does it matter?
Republicans and Democrats are the same fucking thing.
Remember when Democrats had a supermajority in both the house in the senate and were called upon to codify the right to abortion into the constitution and their answer was "don't feel like it. Roe v Wade was enough"?
I remember that.
Remember when the sitting Democrat president penned an "aid package" that siphoned 50 BILLION dollars to Israel to reward them for weeks of shelling civilian targets in Palestine?
Wait. That's just now. That's what the "progressive" president is doing right now.
It doesn't fucking matter. It is a 2 party system only in show.
There are 2 ways to increase the value of your ballot. The first is to use it to vote for people who aren't indoctrinated into "the party". The second is to wipe your ass with it and save on your toilet paper budget.
I certainly hope you don't think that Republicans aren't also wholely in support of Israel. They also have absolutely zero sympathy for Palestinians at all.
Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital, effectively kicking the two state solution in the nuts, was widely condemned by world leaders, and was officialy cited by Hamas as the reason to start a new intifada. Biden didn't change course on this.
He also officially recognized the Golan Heights as being part of Israel. Biden didn't change course on this either.
Then there was that Iranian general he had assassinated. He recently mentioned the Israelis being on board to help assassinate him till they backed out last minute, despite Israeli protestations to the contrary. I assume, because assassinating another country's generals is a potential casus belli, and even Netenyahu didn't want to antagonize Iran that openly.
He also announced a peace plan which suggested Israel annex (a further) 30% of the west bank, then helped push through the Abraham accords. In retrospect, it's likely that the normalisation of relations between Israel and some of its Arab neighbours, was seen as a betrayal by Hamas, and a threat to Iran. Biden didn't change course on this, and it is rumoured that Israel and Saudi Arabia were about to sign a deal, until Hamas attacked.