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Zelenskiy pushes US for more aid, invites Trump to Ukraine
(www.reuters.com)
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I don't know about you... But if my country were able to spend 75 billion dollars helping foreign countries, I'd sure hope they'd use some of it to solve problems here at home too...
Problem is that the more money we spend on social services, the more expensive they become because they're all owned by corporations that are maximizing profit.
Something something 'seize the means of production.'
Has that already happened with fire departments? Sure someone is probably corrupt, but they do a great job of keeping my house not on fire for free. I'd love M4A, even if middlemen skim off the top in the short term.
Fire departments are funded by local taxes or staffed by volunteers.
There isn't a massive for-profit firemen corporation that controls departments across the US, to the best of my knowledge.
It wasn't massive by today's standards, but we did actually used to have for profit fire departments funded by insurance.