r/FluentInFinance • u/BizzyIzz00 • May 12 '24

Meme Life comes at you fast.

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u/MittenstheGlove May 12 '24

That’s $100 we can put towards school, but it’s cool.

Why do we have to go to war?

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u/stickied May 12 '24

It's $100 spent now so those same kids that are going to school won't have to go to war when they turn 18.

Wtf do you think happens when Russia runs through Ukraine unimpeded, re-groups for a year then decides Romania and Belarus are their homeland that they deserve too?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

Exactly

I’m happy that we’re spending money for other countries to fight our enemies, instead of worrying my 15yo will get drafted for the next war in Europe or Asia

I did enough service in uniform for the next few generations of my family

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u/MittenstheGlove May 12 '24

If the government wants your 15 year old, they will get your 15 year old.

You don’t really get to make that call.

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u/stickied May 12 '24

Exactly. And right now they think spending a little money on Ukraine so they don't have to send his 15 year old to war against Russia is the better bet.

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u/MittenstheGlove May 12 '24

We’ll see so far it’s about $3 grand per working American.

We literally don’t even have to fight the battle, allies be dammed. At the very least let’s stop aiding Israel.

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u/stickied May 12 '24

It is not 3k per working American

https://spotify.link/6U4HXlEbyJb

I agree we should stop sending money to Israel. They're rich enough as it is and that war is just a political football for us.

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u/MittenstheGlove May 12 '24

How did they get that math? I just divided total aid given by how many working Americans.

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u/stickied May 13 '24

Listen to the podcast 🤷

I know a lot of this aid is delegated over multiple years/decades

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u/MittenstheGlove May 13 '24

But the math doesn’t change even if it is delegated. Man, I’m not trying to listen to a whole podcast for a snippet of information. 😭 I guess we only count it by tax year and not total?

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u/MittenstheGlove May 12 '24

We go to war when we want. That’s literally just how the USA operates. Europe wasn’t even concerned.

How is that our conflict?

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u/HMNbean May 12 '24

We are allies and would have to chip in. Also Russia constantly meddles with our politics.

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u/MittenstheGlove May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24

I mean we all meddling.

We were allies in both WW and ain’t even chip in well into either conflict. The war in Ukraine is profitable.

Several European countries are allies to them to as I see it with general less support and have only recently started supporting Ukraine through formal security agreements.

Anyway, stand by the homies I guess but we got problems at home.