President Obama just signed a 680 billion dollar "defense" appropriations bill. That does not include the cost of either war!
But we're having an enormous debate about spending 90 billion dollars a year for health care (which will probably end up being deficit neutral anyway!)
America is insane. There's all the money in the world for wars and guns and planes and bombs and soldiers stationed all over the world (we have 50,000 military personnel in Germany alone!) but spending a tiny fraction of that on health care is somehow deemed irresponsible socialism.
Hat tip: Chris Hayes via Ezra Klein.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
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