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Literally a money laundering scheme
Original post was by a right wing loser, but the libs came out strong in the comments: https://twitter.com/SteveLovesAmmo/status/1757873952850870389
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The liberals were always saying we were just giving Ukraine old shit that was going to get replaced so it's actually free. To which I always thought, the fact that we have all this unused shit around and it's enough to coast through an entire war in Ukraine means we spent too much money (the means through which the state requisitions resources, including labor) on military infrastructure in the past. We live in this shit hole country today with terrible infrastructure and literally don't have a health care system because our priorities have always been this dumb shit. Now, I guess it's time to replace all that old shit we gave away (it was free) and we have no choice but to continue prioritizing military infrastructure over health care, public housing, student loan forgiveness, everything. Because military infrastructure isn't cheap.
Congress routinely gives the military MORE money than they ask for when passing the war budget. There are storage lots full of tanks that will never be used because money is continuously pumped into the MIC. Imagine any social service program asking for money and congress appropriates even more than they're asking for an increases it every year. It's wild.
I wonder how much this is actually true versus a narrative that we just heard in the media. If you're getting more money than you asked for, it's always possibe to... not use it, and doesn't make sense in the first place. It seems like a narrative that's supposed to put the blame on those "useless bureaucrats" instead of "our dear and precious and righteous military!"