• redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 hours ago

    Good time to remember how much a single hellfire missile, satellite time and the attention of a battle ship cost. These are all multimillion dollar executions.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Also to remember that government spending isn’t a loss of wealth but a transfer of wealth. There are people profiting from each of these missiles fired (assuming they’ll be replaced, though it still counts if they are replaced by a different missile or system, unless that new system is from a non-profit or public weapons manufacturer).

    • arrow74@lemmy.zip
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      8 hours ago

      The budget for food, Healthcare, and housing is non-existent.

      The budget to blow up fishing boats is infinite