“I urge Congress to come together and swiftly pass this bipartisan agreement,” President Joe Biden said, also praising the migration measures in the bill, which took months to negotiate.

However, House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson declared it “dead on arrival” if it reaches his chamber.

the bill includes a provision barring its funds from going to the U.N. agency for Palestinians, UNRWA.

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      Homelessness rampant in every major city: I sleep

      To be fair, the chuds address it by saying “it’s the democrats fault! The homeless are just lazy!” Etc.

      Liberalism is just disgusting all around

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      Almost every day at this point I’m praying the US pulls a Canada and at least one state implements universal healthcare.

      FWIW, New Jersey does have universal healthcare for children and Medicare means universal healthcare for seniors.

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        The US has universal healthcare for segments of the market where there’s no profit to be made by private companies, but the quality of the care leaves much to be desired

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    You could end world hunger for a hundred years or more for that amount of money. You could obliterate entire illnesses from the face of the earth. You could give expansive homes to every human being on Earth. This is the US dollar too, a famously high value bill (propped up by imperialism and death of course but my point still stands). And we are using to to kill people??

    Edit: We could strip mine asteroids for that much money and start building a Dyson sphere. Almost every silicone valley hallucination ever conceived could be made a reality.

    Edit 2: This amount of funding makes it hard for me to believe we aren’t approaching WW3, though that still seems unlikely

    Edit 3: I mildly overestimated… heavily overestimated the buying power of that much money. Jesus Christ what is happening with inflation. I’m pretty sure the illnesses one is true though. They could delete Covid with that much money.

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      frothingfash: “No bro, you don’t understand. When my tax money goes to war, that’s gender-affirming care for us cis men. I get to feel like a big macho macho man by proxy!”

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      I really agree that we are going to move into some ww3 kind of situation. I just doubt true global hot war is possible but some kind of proxy on proxy on proxy thing.

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    House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson declared it “dead on arrival” if it reaches his chamber.

    I hope thats true and he unintentionally does the only good thing he’s ever done in politics

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    They can’t end homelessness or mass hunger but they can blow billions on funding genocide-committing fascists overseas and putting Latin American kids in cages.

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    lol all America knows how to do at this point is just print money

    Population is so dumb and burgerbrained they can’t even build airplanes any more.

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      It really is wild that the efficient and objectively superior capitalism wasn’t able to predict that if you continue to cut corners on literally everyrhing to try to attain unlimited growth forever eventually you don’t have anything left.

      I mean “the front fell off because it was cheaper than making it not fall off” was supposed to be satire of how ridiculous this mode of thinking was.

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    For context, it would cost $20b to end homelessness, and even cheaper just to get rid of bad zoning laws and allow the free market to do something right for once by building more.

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      I’m curious if you have any resources about YIMBYism from a left wing perspective? I know it’s a woefully incomplete solution and it’s impossible to reform capitalism from the inside, but should leftists support YIMBY policies in the short term? Or does building more not actually reduce the rent for people? Also how does this play into gentrification?

      Sorry, maybe this would be better as a separate post, but if you have any thoughts or articles I’d be curious to read more.

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      I’m sure that total expenses used to make houseless people life even more miserable can be pretty precisely calculated - cost of hostile architecture, police roundups and expenses/time of routine actions, administrative costs etc.

      And it most likely just that would be more than the expense to end houselessness problem by housing all the people in need. Opression is the reason for opression.

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    That is an inconceivable amount of money. That’s enough to pretty much solve every problem in the united snakkkes. Homelessness, healthcare, failing infrastructure, etc. It’s enough to end homelessness and build a high speed train clear across this shithole, COAST TO COAST! But no. We cant have a single nice thing because we live in the “hell on earth” timeline where we’re forced to experience hell on earth. Instead, all of the money under gods green sun is being used to fund a proxy war against Russia and a genocide in Palestine. I can not emphasize this enough; DEATH TO AMERIKKKA amerikkka