NCCommish
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According to the Congressional Research Service, or CRS, that was the cost of keeping one soldier in Afghanistan for one year as of Jan 2015. I think we can assume a little inflation over the last two years and round it up to 4 million. 4,000,000 per year per soldier. There are currently 8400 American soldiers in Afghanistan. so 8400 times 4,000,000 carry the one and we get about 33 billion a year. 33,000,000,000 a year. And the general in charge wants a few thousand more soldiers and he wants us to put money into the Afghan Air Force. No cost estimate of course just give me the damn money. And if we do those things then everything will be peachy? Seems hard to believe but military strategy aside I am going to ask the following question how are we going to pay for it? We have already spent something over 4 trillion, which is the most conservative estimate, in Iraq and Afghanistan. 4,000,000,000,000.00 minimum. Yet our citizens are drinking water with toxic lead levels. Our infrastructure is crumbling. 45,000 people a year die due to inability to get adequate healthcare. Children go hungry. We are told we don't have the money. We don't have the money for WIC. We don't have the money for food stamps. We don't have the money for single payer healthcare. We don't have the money for universal college. We always have the money for another bomb though don't we?
So of course the reality is we have the money for anything we want. We don't have the desire to do these things. Our priorities are ####ed up in the extreme. So the next time a politician tells you we don't have the money to do nation building at home realize what they are really saying is i don't get contributions from inner city kids who are being poisoned by the water they drink so #### them. Those 45,000 dead people can't write a check so #### them. The people bankrupted by medical bills can't write me a check so #### them. People who can't afford to go to college can't write me a 6 figure check so #### them. Plus once the lead messes those inner city kids up and that leads to mental issues then we get to lock them up, that's how we handle mental health issues now, so the guys who pay me from the private prison corporations can pay me more. Win, win.
Don't see how enabling a kleptocracy is a core principle for anyone not getting those checks.
So of course the reality is we have the money for anything we want. We don't have the desire to do these things. Our priorities are ####ed up in the extreme. So the next time a politician tells you we don't have the money to do nation building at home realize what they are really saying is i don't get contributions from inner city kids who are being poisoned by the water they drink so #### them. Those 45,000 dead people can't write a check so #### them. The people bankrupted by medical bills can't write me a check so #### them. People who can't afford to go to college can't write me a 6 figure check so #### them. Plus once the lead messes those inner city kids up and that leads to mental issues then we get to lock them up, that's how we handle mental health issues now, so the guys who pay me from the private prison corporations can pay me more. Win, win.
Don't see how enabling a kleptocracy is a core principle for anyone not getting those checks.