Trump's 'Golden Dome' will cost $1.2tn and might not stop all-out missile attack
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That pricetag is nearly seven times higher than Trump's initial estimate, found an independent budget office.

That pricetag is nearly seven times higher than Trump’s initial estimate, found an independent budget office.

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  • Corvidae@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    12 天前

    I’d rather have Nationalized Health Care and more social services in general. The more military and defenses the US builds, the more they need, while the quality of life of the masses decreases. In the 1950s, if a US citizen had a high school degree and a job, they could get a mortgage and buy a house. Those days are long gone. Maybe the solution is spending less on the military and defenses so we can concentrate on raising the standard of living of the masses? If not, then just what are they trying so hard to save? Lifestyles of the rich and famous?

    • DandomRude@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      12 天前

      The excessive U.S. military spending is by no means about protecting the people. The point of it is to make billionaires richer. That is why it does not matter whether military spending yields any return or benefit, as investments in the healthcare system, infrastructure, or virtually any other sector would. That is not the intention; it is primarily about redistributing public funds into private hands.