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<blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 4146741" data-attributes="member: 35036"><p>That’s the truth. Over 4.5 Trillion dollars in our 8.3 Trillion dollar budget is allotted to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and income security programs like SNAP, Housing, unemployment, etc. California's Medicaid system has 77 billion dollars in payments coming in from the US Gov this year, slightly more than we have sent to Ukraine as of July this year.</p><p></p><p>While I agree, that's really not as much money as we all think. We spend $83.3 billion, or roughly 1% of our budget on foreign affairs, to Include operating costs of embassies and diplomats. Although this obviously does not count the boatloads of cash sent to Ukraine or Israel that was approved outside the budget, those numbers add up to somewhere less than 85 billion, or another 1% of our budget. The equivalent of the average American household making an extra car payment or two each year.</p><p></p><p>Still, in spite of it "only" being 1 or 2% of our budget, $83 billion, or even $160 billion is a lot of money. If we just spent that stateside, we could make some serious changes to things that matter. we could create 131,000 new, good paying security jobs by hiring a trained security guard for every school, and install bulletproof high security exterior doors on every school in the US, creating 131,000 prospective jobs for contractors all over the US.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HoLeChit, post: 4146741, member: 35036"] That’s the truth. Over 4.5 Trillion dollars in our 8.3 Trillion dollar budget is allotted to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and income security programs like SNAP, Housing, unemployment, etc. California's Medicaid system has 77 billion dollars in payments coming in from the US Gov this year, slightly more than we have sent to Ukraine as of July this year. While I agree, that's really not as much money as we all think. We spend $83.3 billion, or roughly 1% of our budget on foreign affairs, to Include operating costs of embassies and diplomats. Although this obviously does not count the boatloads of cash sent to Ukraine or Israel that was approved outside the budget, those numbers add up to somewhere less than 85 billion, or another 1% of our budget. The equivalent of the average American household making an extra car payment or two each year. Still, in spite of it "only" being 1 or 2% of our budget, $83 billion, or even $160 billion is a lot of money. If we just spent that stateside, we could make some serious changes to things that matter. we could create 131,000 new, good paying security jobs by hiring a trained security guard for every school, and install bulletproof high security exterior doors on every school in the US, creating 131,000 prospective jobs for contractors all over the US. [/QUOTE]
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