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Wouldn't the world be a better place if $1,3 Trillion be spent on education and health in USA?

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,801

Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,956

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan

Total Cost of Wars Since 2001

$1,321,503,586,955

If taxes were spent with accountability and conscience? Would every one not be happy?

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  • 9 years ago
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    Yes. But it's not happening because it's not in the owners' best interests.

    Education? They prefer instruction. Education involved teaching people to think critically. They don't want that. They want to teach you just enough so you can do a job.

    Health care? Not unless it's controlled by employers. That way, you have one more reason to stay longer hours at your demeaning job for less and less pay. It's what managers call incentivizing.

    Saw a good short movie recently: Mousland.

    It's about how these mice keep electing cats. And how the cats make laws that will make easier to catch mice, like laws that will make the mouse holes bigger and laws preventing mice from running.

    So they elect black cats, and white cats, but they're always cats, so the mice keep getting the short end of the stick.

    So one mouse eventually suggests they stop electing cats altogether and elect other mice to parliament.

    At which point they call him a communist and jail him.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    As long as there is a war, Americans will either be at the forefront of it ,or arming both sides.

    Third world living is the price the citizens pay for being a so called super power.

  • 9 years ago

    Since then USA has collected 30 trillion dollars in taxes and spent 56 trillion dollars. Your 1.3 trillion would not effect much in health and education. It would only give teachers a 30 dollar a year raise.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Absolutely not. Moral corruption which liberal education has contributed greatly to is the problem, not the remedy.

    The money for those wars are a drop in the bucket compared to the money liberal Democrats have dished out for social programs which have done zero to create jobs or eradicate poverty. On the contrary, they have only made the situation much much worse.

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  • 9 years ago

    If only people weren't so naive in the first place and vote for these things that get us into these messes we wouldn't have to ask these questions.

    The Bushes need to be tried for treason and hanged for these atrocities but it won't happen until The King of kings comes.

  • 9 years ago

    Government schooling already wastes about 3 trillion per year. I would say much less government would be an improvement.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Or to prop up Social Security. Or if it hadn't been spent, period. The U.S. can never recover from what Bush and Obama have done.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Yes, though I think this question is more suited for the Politics section.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    No. How would the world benefit if it's just in America?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    At least "muzzies" go to heaven. Oh wait atheists don't believe in that.

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