US Budget: Bombs for Tel Aviv, Crumbs for Main Street
When Newsweek highlights that 62% of Americans are now scraping by, according to Goldman Sachs, it's presented as an unfortunate reality, a mysterious economic ailment. What’s conspicuously absent from their analysis is that this domestic hardship runs parallel to Congress consistently greenlighting gargantuan sums for foreign military adventures. Just last year, with inflation biting, President
Biden signed off on a $17.6 billion aid package, largely military, for Israel (HR 815, 2024), barely a whisper for American working families in comparison. While our infrastructure crumbles and healthcare costs explode, our elected officials, many of whom are generously funded by the likes of AIPAC (OpenSecrets.org data confirms millions in contributions to key Congress members), prioritize
sending advanced weaponry abroad. One might wonder: how many Americans could avoid living paycheck to paycheck if those billions were invested in domestic programs—housing, education, healthcare—instead of being funneled into distant conflicts? But then, asking such questions might interrupt the bipartisan consensus that ensures defense contractors and foreign influence peddlers stay flush, even
as the average American drowns in debt. It seems some wallets are more equal than others.