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We can't help refugees from countries we bombed and other non-Americans in trouble because we need to help our own citizens.
We can't help people here because [fill-in-the-blank]. Reasons vary. Could be debt is too high (this from people who support the GOP pumping up the debt to give tax breaks to the uber-wealthy and to grow the military). Could be that the people who need money are losers. I've even heard that excuse for why we shouldn't worry about how many veterans are falling through the cracks -- they're losers.
It's always one excuse after another to keep funneling money from the government to the corporate barons.
And it's ironic that the GOP keeps growing our military spending. It's already more than the next 7 countries combined. And what are we going to do with it? Bomb some more countries to create more refugees that we won't take responsibility for?
If we were trying to help our veterans that would ease the irony a little, but even when the GOP creates a new program to help vets they say they have to cut vet funds somewhere else to pay for the new program. Can't use all that new defense money to help the vets. The vets have to tighten their belt and be more efficient. Just like schools need to tighten their belts and be more efficient. But somehow that advice doesn't apply to our military. Gotta have more money for the military.
I know both parties are complicit in this cycle of keeping the Military Industrial Complex booming and keeping the donor class fat and sassy, but Democrats at least show some interest in helping the poor who are being left behind and some interest in helping the people whose lives we tore apart when we bombed their countries. Providing a little balance between the favors they do for the rich and what they do for the rest of the people they're supposed to be serving.
We can't help people here because [fill-in-the-blank]. Reasons vary. Could be debt is too high (this from people who support the GOP pumping up the debt to give tax breaks to the uber-wealthy and to grow the military). Could be that the people who need money are losers. I've even heard that excuse for why we shouldn't worry about how many veterans are falling through the cracks -- they're losers.
It's always one excuse after another to keep funneling money from the government to the corporate barons.
And it's ironic that the GOP keeps growing our military spending. It's already more than the next 7 countries combined. And what are we going to do with it? Bomb some more countries to create more refugees that we won't take responsibility for?
If we were trying to help our veterans that would ease the irony a little, but even when the GOP creates a new program to help vets they say they have to cut vet funds somewhere else to pay for the new program. Can't use all that new defense money to help the vets. The vets have to tighten their belt and be more efficient. Just like schools need to tighten their belts and be more efficient. But somehow that advice doesn't apply to our military. Gotta have more money for the military.
I know both parties are complicit in this cycle of keeping the Military Industrial Complex booming and keeping the donor class fat and sassy, but Democrats at least show some interest in helping the poor who are being left behind and some interest in helping the people whose lives we tore apart when we bombed their countries. Providing a little balance between the favors they do for the rich and what they do for the rest of the people they're supposed to be serving.