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Re:Firefighters are leaving the U.S. Forest Service for bett... by willcipriano on Monday July 17, 2023 @02:09PM (#36761837)
Well pick whatever social program you want to implement and imagine it as cluster munitions leaving unexploded ordnance all over the place to kill and mutilate civilians, remaining dangerous long after the conflict is over, because that's what you picked instead.
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Re:Firefighters are leaving the U.S. Forest Service for bett... by nyokodo on Monday July 17, 2023 @04:45PM (#36763806)
> Well pick whatever social program you want to implement and imagine it as cluster munitions

All the numbers thrown around about the lend lease program are military accounting and do not impose almost any actual costs to the US tax payer, basically just the cost of shipping which is minuscule compared to the Military budget let alone Entitlements. Therefore, the comparison of essentially military funny-money and actual Entitlement increases is just hyper-partisan nonsense.

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