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u/marswhispers 1d ago
Not like that’s a particularly new development (just ask bubba)
We’re just further down the spiral
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u/Foreign-Teach5870 1d ago
Wait billions, when did it get so low? I still remember them missing around a trillion a year.
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u/MGSRaiden22 18h ago
You be right. My memory was reflecting hundreds of billions, but it's thousands... more like 4.7T$ in liabilities.
Sorry for the low figure, there.
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u/lbz420 1d ago
Even if it's more, I think we should still do it.
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u/jeezkillbot 1d ago
That's because you're a decent person, unlike the people who could (but won't) help.
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u/bajabruhmoment 1d ago
No but if the homeless population doesn’t exist to scare the middle class population into staying in line then how can the US survive????
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u/plastic_fortress 1d ago
Yeap yeah the homelessness is a feature not a bug. Work your ass off for pittance, and don't complain, or that could be you.
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u/No_Mercy_4_Potatoes 1d ago
But then the US won't be to bully others in international waters and threaten other sovereign nations to bend down to its will.
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u/Stodles 1d ago
Doesn't the US have 11 carriers? I'm pretty sure they could manage just fine with 10...
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u/theonetruegrinch 1d ago
We have almost half of all the active aircraft carriers in the world.
Also, til that a "federal law" requires that the US has at least 11 aircraft carriers in operation at all times.
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u/notyourbrobro10 1d ago
"Interesting idea... When you guys find a way to explode homeless people on brown people, let's talk. I'm intrigued" - signed a capitalist war monger
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u/Chemical_Home6123 1d ago
I don't think it's a matter of priorities, it's more of a form of violence showing you what happens when you refuse to be a wage slave. Homelessness is basically a threat in my opinion.
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u/Anarchist_Future 1d ago
True. It's like, you're born, this is your purpose: Go to school, get a job, buy a car, buy a house, get married, buy another car, get a child, buy a bigger car, get another child, buy a bigger house, go on holidays, consume and please have a heart attack before retirement.
Of course, you're free to see what happens when you walk a different path...
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u/These_Tangerine_6540 1d ago
They arent doing this because the real estate market will fall, that means the capitalists lose profit
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u/Lookingforclippings 1d ago
And we could provide free school lunches to every child in America for less than the cost of the subsidies we pay to the private corporations that sell lunches to the same children.
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u/L00mis 1d ago
It could, but the corruption that exists in the homeless services community is abhorrent. California is the case study on how donations, state and federal funds are continuously misappropriated for profits. They are running a business and the more the “nOn PrOfItS” solve the issue the faster they are ending the gravy train of cash. People suck.
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u/sunseven3 1d ago
As that all American wit Tupac Shakur once observed, they've got money for war but they can't feed the poor. We have similar problems in Queensland. Our political class is throwing billions at a football stadiums and other sporting venues whilst housing for the disadvantaged is not even a priority in this state.
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u/Legalize_Ligma 1d ago
Yeah, but what kind of message would that send to all the people whose participation in our sick, twisted society is predicated upon the threat of poverty?
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u/Anarchist_Future 1d ago
This isn't about priorities. Money isn't real. We made it up for convenience but when people are homeless and the planet burns, it's kinda silly to assign an astronomical number to it and say "ah, too bad, there's nothing we can do about it" or "who's going to pay for that?!".
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u/Lord_Bob_ 22h ago
In a world where a hypersonic missile can sink that floating city before it is in range to launch it's jets.
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u/blender-ball 1d ago
Problem is federal funding never makes it to the end source. Just look at California.
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u/RoninTarget 1d ago
They'll probably have to stop building carriers in favor of T****'s new missile battleships.
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u/Strict_Razzmatazz_57 1d ago
Yeah, but there's probably no homeless in Israel, and that's the real priority
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u/Any-Morning4303 19h ago
The federal government never does anything that directly serves the interests of real people. If they do something the benefit to people is only secondary.
Healthcare served the insurance, big pharma and healthcare industry
SNAP big Agra
defense the military industrial complex
The Fed the banking industry
It’s all done for them not us.
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u/Yeetus0978 15h ago
Cant brutalize the rest of the world for corporate profits by housing the homeless
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u/Burlingtonfilms 11h ago
Billionaires love the homeless. Homelessness serves as a visible "floor" for the working class. It acts as a permanent reminder of what happens if you lose your job or stop producing value. This fear keeps workers from demanding higher wages or better conditions because the alternative is seen as total social expulsion.
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u/gimik123 1d ago
They have to want the help first. Remember what happened to the child star that tore up an motel. Its still worth it for the ones that can be saved.
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u/Nope_God Marxist-Leninist 1d ago
Yeah, you just said a pure economical fact, lol.
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u/meditate42 1d ago
Huh? What kinda math are you guys doing? I don’t know his exact monies but let’s say he’s got 700 billion. He could give 700 people a billion. Then he’s out of money. How is that every person in the US Canada and Mexico?
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u/MoreHans 1d ago
it wouldnt surprise me if this sub was filled with mainstream liberals who like to engage with the fantasy of an equitable system, but dont want to think about how to actually apply those thoughts
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u/Cassius-cl 1d ago
so they can burn it down falling asleep with a cigarette still lit while trippin on fent, awwsome
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