• @OsrsNeedsF2P
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    1 year ago

    Upvoted because US bad but let’s do basic math here –

    Housing is a social issue not a budget one

    Edit: You can downvote all you want, but the numbers speak for themselves

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      71 year ago

      The social issue is that US regime prioritizes foreign interventions over the wellbeing of its citizens. Much of US industrial economy is geared towards the military industrial complex, US operates over 800 bases around the globe, and so on. Overall military spending in US eclipses all other major powers combined. Ukraine is just the latest conflict that US is is pouring money into.

    • lemmygrabber
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      61 year ago

      Edit: You can downvote all you want, but the numbers speak for themselves

      Why would you make this edit after one downvote

    • @redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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      51 year ago

      I’m not your down voter and you are right to look into the numbers but:

      One problem with these figures is that privatised healthcare is more expensive p/p than public healthcare. So focusing on paying for healthcare rather than (foreign) military spending (which would also suggest a systemic change away from a mostly privatised model) would significantly decrease the total cost of healthcare (for the same provision), whereas the foreign military spending would at best stay the same (for the same provision).

      So those numbers are likely incomparable.

      Also, $68b spent on preventive or rehabilitative programs would have an exponential effect on decreasing overall healthcare spending, by e.g. spotting problems before they require expensive, possibly lifelong treatments. Again, making the figures incomparable.