2y ago

CNN: Pentagon considers tapping into remaining $4 billion in Ukraine defense aid fund

kyivindependent.com

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They better start tapping soon or Europe will soon be sending troops to defend Ukraine and that's going to cost the US trillions!
please remember that the next time they say there's no money for healthcare or social services or schools or a pay raise. theres 4 BILLION accessible whenever the capitalist war machine needs it
- Terrible argument. I think the Medicare for All estimates were like $32 trillion over 10 years. So $4 billion is barely a drop in the bucket.
  Better argument is that we currently pay more money to insure fewer people through our current system. Don't get into their games of we have to give up X to get Y, because we definitely don't. And Ukraine funding is imperative.
  
  Reminds me of the £350 million a week the UK was supposedly sending the EU in the Brexit campaign.
  The claim was inflated, but also they never intended to spend that on the NHS as was insinuated in the ad.
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vote-leave-brexit-lies-eu-pay-money-remain-poll-boris-johnson-a8603646.html
  The sustained belief also comes despite the government having shown no sign of spending the supposed £350m extra a week on the NHS, as the advertisements controversially suggested.
  
  Best argument is that that 32 trillion is in fact the total cost over a number of years, not the difference between current system and medicare for all. Medicare for all as suggested then saves money, around 5 trillion, from admin costs and being in a better negotiating position for drugs.
  https://www.citizen.org/news/fact-check-medicare-for-all-would-save-the-u-s-trillions-public-option-would-leave-millions-uninsured-not-garner-savings/
- Cost was never the real reason ever.

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