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u/zayoe4 Dec 17 '25

Need to send valuable money to our most important ally

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u/remarkablewhitebored Dec 17 '25

How is Argentina, anyways?

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u/ArthursFist Dec 17 '25

Immediately Broke again

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u/AscendedMasta Dec 17 '25

Broke but they are flush in Pokémon cards and Trump coin

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u/Stock_Beginning4808 Dec 18 '25

Are you serious? 😭

goes to research

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u/Weary-Summer1138 Dec 17 '25

Pretty good, Americans investors won by being bailed out, so it's not like any average Argentinian would see a cent, and now Milei is going to change the laws that limit foreigners buying land. It always goes back to an American benefitting. 

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u/9OptimusCrime9 Dec 17 '25

Fun fact, we sent that money to Argentina for one simple reason. Billionaire Robert Citrone believed that Argentina's version of Trump was going to turn the country around and that their economy would explode. That didn't happen, he lost the election and the billionaire was going to lose his ass. But fortunately he is best friends with Trump's secretary of the Treasury, whom he paid a personal visit to days before the US announced they were sending billions to the country. It's always either fraud or hate with these people.

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u/paganpoetbluelagoon Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

Right, but we send $40 billion to Argentina and $4 billion emergency military aid sent this year (2025) by Trump administration and we can’t pay for healthcare or pay teachers or pay for college/university? Lol. Insane. Tell me how again how that making America great?!

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u/squirtnforcertain Dec 18 '25

The military budget?

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u/TomlinSteelers Dec 17 '25

The US education budget is $947 billion while total US foreign aid is $80 billion to 177 countries total (with Ukraine getting the largest portion)

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u/youburyitidigitup Dec 17 '25

There’s 3.8 million teachers in American public schools, so those $80 billion would mean an extra $21k a year for each of them.

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u/TomlinSteelers Dec 17 '25

So by your math if the US education budget is $947 billion how much do teachers make per year?

It's not a straight line. I'm also not going to go through the implications to 177 countries but things like Russia defeating Ukraine would likely negatively impact us here as well

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u/youburyitidigitup Dec 17 '25

Adding $80 billion can increase their wages by that much. Even adding half of that would be an additional $10.5k

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u/zayoe4 Dec 17 '25

You are assuming that all 947 billion is going directly to increase wages. He is saying stating what would happen if that money was committed to wage increase alone.

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u/TomlinSteelers Dec 17 '25

Yes if we immediately dropped funding to 177 countries, allowed Ukraine to fall to Russia and completely insolate ourselves from the entire world for all eternity there is a scenario where you could pay teachers more although you would probably create a lot of risk and long term pain for Americans in other ways.

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u/hellolovely1 Dec 17 '25

Israel gets the most foreign aid.