A slim majority of voting Democrats defied leader Jeffries, backing failed Massie amendment to cut $3.3 billion

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[–] 120 points 3 months ago (12 children)

If you still feel like you need to provide "aid" to a country with a higher QoL than yours, higher ranking healthcare and education than yours, better-equipped social services than yours, and higher GDP per capita, you are a sad, brainwashed, controlled paypiggy.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Israel has lower gdp per capita ($60k PPP) then the US ($94k).

    This is just to say they're providing that better qol despite having less money.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Because we are paying for it. Yet we don't have enough for our own people?!?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    America QoL is fucked not because they're paying for others, but because of inequality.

    In the US, GDP per working person (or, how much money each worker generates) is well over $150k.

    Wages are less than half that, on average.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    does that GDP number include the billions we give them in aid? We give them far far far more than the 3.8 billion thats advertised. 3.8 billion directly plus another 12.5 billion in military aid just in 2024. And I imagine similar in 2025 but dont have the data. What could America have done with a spare ~17 billion? and thats not even counting the horrifyingly expensive missiles we expend to protect them, military operations in the region to benefit them, the wars we engage in at their whim that only serve their interests. When you factor in the wars we are probably a trillion dollars into supporting these genocidal chucklefucks.

    https://www.cfr.org/articles/us-aid-israel-four-charts

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Yes, Israel is playing build-a-Reich and America is paying for it.

    However, that's not the reason why Americans are struggling - monstrous income inequality and zero social policies are the main ones.

    Go out and vote out every incumbent bloodsucker out in primaries, like in the recent NY primaries.

    Keep it up for 6 years, and it will cause a literal revolution in America.

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