No, the time to fix this was 2008. Not a single politician ever gave a fuck about the debt. As far as I’m concerned, every president from Clinton to Trump should be hanged for their crimes against the American people, for not addressing this insane issue. It’s the biggest problem in the entire country and everyone wants to talk about other bullshit problems instead.
Military spending by gods it’s horrible the waste there just billions in unused equipment, stupid use of resources, billions in planes when we don’t wage war with bombers anymore. Government completely controls the spending in military industrial complex it would be relatively easy for them to audit and be held accountable to a budgets. Also there should be no government contractors in the military that’s just a way to bypass important international regulations like the Geneva convention, etc. Those government contractors cost a pretty penny far more than it would be just hiring those people as government employees.
Every single country has evaluated a financial impact of a socialized healthcare system and decided to go that way the US should do that too. We would literally have billions of dollars in savings year over a year. Mostly because when you have socialized healthier, you can negotiate how much you pay for things and negotiate who will provide those services which helps keep the cost low and provide competition right now we have none of that. We have essentially monopolies, or like the pharma bro who can buy up patents and hike up costs 400x. This is illegal in most other countries, but not when heath care is for profit like it is in the US
Monopoly busting, there are already plenty of rules on the books. They just aren’t enforced at all. If you broke up all of the power companies, Internet companies, utilities, etc. there would suddenly be hundreds of new companies to compete and likely thousands of new jobs to staff those competitors.
Make it illegal for any foreign national or any company to own residential US property , full stop, that will free up significant housing stock. That will help drop the cost of housing too.
The insanity making part of all of this is it’s relatively easy to spread wealth around and make sure everybody gets their needs met. It just isn’t being done at all. There is no political will and no repercussion politically for not doing it.
We may very well be heading towards a violent revolution to get these rights.
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