47 points

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.

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How about you tax billionaires and do both.

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Yeah that’s ideal but if we can only have one, this is by far the less popular of the options

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You mean that other initiative he’s been working on that the Republicans have been fighting tooth and nail against?

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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“

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That would cover about 5% of all student loan debt.

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What’s the difference between a billion and a trillion?

About a trillion.

Current US student debt: $1.77 trillion.

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Biden: “Hey! Stop the genocide of those Palestinians!”

Also Biden: “By the way, here’s $10 billion

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100 billion. One hundred billion dollars.

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The article said most will go to Ukraine, with $10 billion for Israel.

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it should all go to Ukraine in my opinion

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This report says $40 billion of the $100 billion. The dollar amount doesn’t matter. At the end of the day the US doesn’t have a nationwide healthcare system and 18% of the population is in some sort of housing insecurity.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-expected-seek-60b-ukraine-aid-israel-100b-funding-request-rcna121095

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How about domestic aid

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He is fucking funding Israel but can’t make student loan forgiveness or covid relief a thing.

I fucking hate The Party…

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He had a student loan forgiveness program last year that Republicans blockaded…

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14 points

No, no, shh, everything is biden’s fault and we are all going to throw a tantrum about it

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Isn’t it convenient how that’s always the case.

The Party is The Party. It never changes. And people keep voting for them.

ROCK THE VOTE! MTV told me it does something so it must be true!

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The parties, because both are shit

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Correct your self. We fucking all hate Republicans and Democrats.

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Yes. Republicans and Democrats. The Party.

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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

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Or about $12 for every single person in the entire world.

On a separate note, war machines are very expensive and definitely overpriced.

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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.

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About 300 million US citizens so that’s $333. Less than the stimulus checks the first 2 years of covid

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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.

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Give everyone 5k? Like more Biden bucks?

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