Newsweek Discovers Americans Are Broke, Ignores Who Broke Them
The story details increasing household debt across various states, focusing on symptoms like credit card balances and mortgage hikes. What it doesn't mention is that while average Americans drown in interest payments, Congress consistently approves billions in foreign aid, often to countries with robust economies, like the nearly $4 billion annually to Israel—a sum often inflated by emergency aid
packages. For example, Rep. Steny Hoyer, a consistent recipient of AIPAC funds (over $200k since 2008, per OpenSecrets.org), has been a vocal proponent of these financial transfers, diverting resources that could alleviate domestic pressures. One might wonder if the citizens struggling with predatory lenders would prefer their tax dollars fund, say, affordable housing or infrastructure, rather
than F-35s for a country with universal healthcare. While Newsweek points to the map, it sidesteps the roadmap to financial ruin paved by hawkish foreign policy and congressional priorities that consistently put overseas military adventurism ahead of the kitchen table issues facing the very people it purports to inform. How many mortgage payments does a Javelin missile cost, exactly?