This cost them about $1 trillion.
The truth is, you cannot build systems like this exclusively on the logic of profit. You cannot expect to break even in 20 or 30 years. Projects of this scale are built because the government decides they must exist to serve the people.
And this is a problem with systems that are strictly, or overwhelmingly, capitalist. If you leave every problem in your society to the spontaneity of the market, some challenges are so large and so unprofitable that you will never have sufficient incentive to solve them.
I don't wanna hear about your 9/11 anymore, man. It's been 9/11 everyday for people in the middle east for the past 20 years. Fuckin barbarians and murderers.
This is an interesting turn. By not wanting to make President Trump look weak, the White House has just admitted that Iran was never a threat to the United States.
Which leads to the elephant in the room: If Iran is not a threat, why the hell are we bombing them?! 🤔
Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina, $12 billion to Israel (in just his second term) and is trying to increase the military budget to $1 trillion, despite the fact that the pentagon can’t account for 63% of their money and failed 8 audits in a row.
If your job requires a college degree, you should be able to write-off your student loan payments as a business expense the way CEOs write off their private jets and yachts for their jobs which require neither.
98% of presidents have been white. Over 90% of ppl who pass legislation are white.
All odds have been in their favor since the colonization of this land and yet somehow they still bitch and moan. A victim mentality if I’ve ever see one.
Do not let Barack Obama lie to you like this. He had a super majority in congress the day he stepped in office; he didn't push for single payer because insurance agencies have bought off the government.
Imagine if they offered this to medical students, nursing students, and students looking to go into research. Imagine what our country could look like instead.
Fascism and Jim Crow never died, it simply evolved.
His name was Demartravion "Trey" Reed and he was lynched at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi.