US Says No Money for Social Programs, But '$700 Billion to Kill People? Yup!
I'm sorry but this enrages me. Absolutely infuriates me. Makes my head spin and say "what the hell is going on with our reps?!"
I am sick and tired of hearing the argument of "that costs too much!" or "no we can't have this because it will raise taxes!" as excuses for NOT having social programs like the rest of the damn world has. When are we going say enough is enough while we seemingly have all this money for military bullshit? Seriously!
Only 8 senators voted against this bill, 3 didn't vote. 8. EIGHT.
This isn't right folks. Here is a list of the 8 who said no: Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Pat Leahy (D-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ron Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.).
Here is a list of those who all said yes.
Where were the pundits and elected lawmakers who complain about the cost of providing healthcare to all Americans when the Senate voted to spend $700 billion on the military?
Many critics were raising this question Monday after the Senate—in what was portrayed as yet another indication of bipartisan support for endless war—overwhelmingly approved the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which will dump a larger sum of money into the military budget than even President Donald Trump asked for while also authorizing the production of 94 F-35 jets, two dozen more than the Pentagon requested.
Passage of the NDAA—which this year approves a $700 billion defense budget, an annual increase of $80 billion—is something of an automated process in Washington, one that often flies under the radar and garners little opposition.
However, with support for Medicare for All and free public college tuition soaring, many are calling attention to the hypocrisy of pundits who yell about the costs of single-payer healthcare providing debt-free higher education while remaining entirely silent about the war budget.
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. . . . normally one of the best progressives we have in the Senate, he's between a rock and a hard-on.
Koch-funded Josh Mandel is running against him . . . again . . . and having Koch money is the only thing propping up Josh Mandel, as bigwigs in his own party don't even like him. They think he's a sleazy, smarmy Rovian shit with zero scruples and they're right. Unfortunately, Ohio just committed the mother of all fuck-ups and turned the state as deep red as Texas.
Despite Brown being pro-worker and anti-offshore outsourcing, any one less thing Mandel can hang on Brown ("WEAK ON THE TROOPS!!"
retains his seat. That's all Ohio doesn't need is two teabagger Senaturds.
