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Everyone in Washington believes in MMT when it comes to military spending
MMT for me, austerity for thee
HEALTHCARE PLEASE 
No because we have to be able to afford two wars at once.
Why is an Onion article in news— Oh.
But how about second breakfast of war with Iran?
We can't afford healthcare, or student loan forgiveness, or housing, or food, or bridges, or infrastructure, but BOY HOWDY war? We can CERTAINLY afford AT LEAST two of those
Those dead imperialist eyes.
"You? You're alright. This one? Real fucking ugly"
Only two wars? 🇵🇸 🇷🇺 Is there someone you forgot to ask? 🇨🇳
Of course the US can. It's so infuriating that it has the money and resources to spend in whatever it wants and instead it's using it to finance death.
Of course, I think she's probably saying this at the GOP more than as a personal interest in war, as we've been hearing people talk about America doesn't have the resources, which even if true isn't something you would say if you "love america".
america is the richest country on earth and we can afford anything*, implying otherwise is blasphemy
*offer not valid for the dirty poors
"We can afford anything when it comes to protecting our international position and pursuing national interests."
Unfortunately, international relations has never really cared about poors - if you study diplomatic relations they literally teach you that "human rights" wasn't even a concept to foreign relations between nation-states until the 20th century.
It’s so infuriating that [the US] has the money and resources to spend in whatever it wants and instead it’s using it to finance death.
As far as the burger regime is concerned, those are the same thing.
I don't think I can take much more of old people saying unhinged shit.
America can afford 2 wars.
You mean the wars in Palestine and Ukraine, right?
The wars in Palestine and Ukraine, right?
healthcare pls
That's our entire economic model and foreign policy positions summed up in one sentence.
It's heartwarming to see people from all over lemmy come together and dunk on this ghoul
I have a lot of old people in my life that I love.
But man oh man, this makes me think all political gam gams and pepaws should be inhaling pillows at a certain age just to prevent them from turning into a murderous politician.
It may be time to tell 
's daughter she needs to Chief her Cuckoo's Nest in MineCraft before the brainrot turns (more) malicious.
Ghoul is becoming an understatement
Yellen can go get dropped right on top of a hospital in Gaza.
But we can’t afford to house and care for people… yeah, that’s us.
i thought they were pivoting to china? three wars?
My president, what are you waiting for. She's admitting that we cannot afford 3 wars. Please invade Seattle
Gee Bill! How come your mom lets you wage 2 wars?
Money isn't real and the government will do whatever it wants
No we can't. The last double war situation racked up the national debt an obscene amount.
The national debt doesn't matter, the government can simply keep raising the debt ceiling indefinitely for as long as they want.
Here's a quick explanation of modern monetary "theory" video
Servicing that debt keeps increasing.
it's two wars, Michael. what could it cost? ten dollars?
Bad economics, they should just turn it into 1 big war!
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