RE: Should We Resist Trump?
November 17, 2016 at 9:11 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2016 at 9:18 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 17, 2016 at 8:52 am)abaris Wrote: It's one of the classical populous demands where people don't question the claim. Ah, keep it all to ourselves and everything will be peachy. Nothing could be further from the truth because it's usually only a fraction of overall spendings.
I think it's a throwback. I suppose the notion would be more compelling if we lived in self sufficient and isolated fiefdoms, where the problems of our neighbors didn't become our own problems in short order. When we really -had- so little that we might not be able to spare a fraction of a penny on a dollar.
As it stands, though, the amount we might spend on, say, one person in the safety net -here- gives us returns elsewhere that are orders of magnitude greater....and ofc, we can absorb the loss in the aggregate and still provide that one person with the net. One months worth of food stamps in the US carries the same value as digging a well and electrifying a village in BFE, for example, lol. For the cost of sending all of my kids on a field trip, a school full of children in BFE could be vaccinated. If this sort of outreach, prestige building, and lifesaving foreign aide isn't worth those fractions of a penny on a dollar that I will never miss...I don't know what is. It;s certainly a hell of alot cheaper than dealing with it when they show up at my doorstep, thirsty, hungry, and sick.
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