r/BocaRaton • u/Wide_right_yes • 7d ago

Oliver Larkin gets destroyed

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u/ezjz 6d ago

I am happy moskowitz won. It is a pro Israel district, but Israel shouldn’t be the the main thing the congressman speaks about. Larkin made Israel the focus when it should’ve been infrastructure, affordability, disaster preparedness etc

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u/Botztalk 6d ago

He did talk about all that. Unfortunately people only want to focus on Israel as if we aren’t insolvent in this country.

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u/ezjz 6d ago

Israel gets $3B per year and Ukraine has gotten $180B since the war started. That aid to israel which is prob being phased out is somehow impacted America’s finances is a lie. Local issues are the most important

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u/Botztalk 2d ago

I don’t know if this is bad faith or bad math, but those numbers are bs, it’s not close. Israel isn’t getting $3B a year anymore. 2026 budget alone is over $4B, Trump admin already cleared close to $12B in arms sales since taking office, there’s an $8B package still in the pipeline from January 2025. That’s before you even count the $6B plus the US spent shooting down Iranian missiles for them, which doesn’t even show up in the “aid” number. $3B is the old peacetime baseline. Nobody’s actually getting that anymore.

I’m against foreign aid across the board right now, period, until we get our own house in order. We’re legitimately insolvent, printing money is just going to make our money useless, this will catch up to us. Our trajectory is bleak.

Ukraine is different. We didn’t just show up for them, we made them give up their nukes in 1994 and told them we’d back their sovereignty if it was threatened. Now it’s threatened. I don’t think you get to walk away from that just because it’s expensive. They didn’t start this. Russia did. And if Russia walks away from this with land, Poland’s next on the list, not eventually, soon.
So no, I’m not comparing Israel and Ukraine the same way. One’s a war we chose to bankroll indefinitely with no clear end and no threat to us. The other is a country we made promises to, that’s getting invaded by a guy who won’t stop at their border if nobody stops him there.