lol, nope. I want it all cut. including the infrastructure bills which directly help my industry. I have no sacred cows, I want to eat steak.
as someone else pointed out the relatively small costs are what we are buried in. There aren't any 34 trillion dollar expenditures we can cut. there's a couple billion here, a couple billion there, all the way around DC and this nation.
and the "smallness" of the aid is only relative to the massiveness of our debt. billions is not a small amount of money. even for our nation. you are guilty of Stalin logic, just with money. "A life lost is a tragedy, a million lives lost are statistics."
you are trading the future of Ukrainians for the future of Americans. There is a reason they tell you to put on your own oxygen mask first in an emergency on a plane before helping others. what happens to those others when we can't even take care of ourselves? They are going to be in even worse situations because we aren't going to be able to even fund our own nation and there will be literally nothing for anyone. Our governments duty is first to the people of our country. UNTIL they can handle this nation they shouldn't be hurting us, no matter how small you think that hurt is, to help others.
you ever have someone that was sick, or in the hospital, needed rest to heal; but kept getting up and trying to help others? that is exactly what we are, we aren't taking care of ourselves and doing more damage to ourselves in our efforts to help others. what comes once we give out will be far worse, than if we had sat back and taken care of ourselves. and not just for us, but for everyone.
you are worried about 1 Ukraine, I am seeing a dozen Ukraines when we have a collapse. what happens to the world when all the violence we are keeping a lid on erupts?
You're argument is the same argument put forth by all "
fiscal conservatives", right up until the moment where X needs to be cut, and suddenly, we're back to "
deficit spending isn't bad when we do it, trust me bro." (see deficit increases from 2017-2019).
Whether you agree with aiding Ukraine or not, no matter what happens, whether we continue to support them or not, it will have zero net effect on government spending, or deficit increases; absolutely zero. America's financial future is not poised to collapse because we sent a couple of billion dollars worth of weapons that we purchased over the last 20+ years to Ukraine, and will have to pay to replace them at some point. The long term economic ramifications to the US economy of not helping them far outweigh the comparably miniscule cost associated with actually helping them not be subjected to genocide and occupation by Russia.
Like the chart I posted earlier, it doesn't matter who is in office, it doesn't matter which program or expenditure that you want to cut, as long as the feds are comfortable paying the debt financing costs, the deficit spending will continue.
If it wasn't aid to Ukraine, it would be some other expenditure that you'd harp on as being '
the reason we are in so much debt', and yet cutting that expenditure sill wouldn't impact federal fiscal policy. When it comes down to it, it's just you wanting to fence straddle, talk about how Russia shouldn't be invading Ukraine, but do nothing to help them, because helping them costs money, and since you like to pretend that all deficit spending is bad when it's convenient, spending money to help Ukraine is bad.
If you were truly concerned about 'all of the violence we are keeping a lid on' erupting, then you'd want to do everything in our power to hamper Russia's naked imperialism, since they are literally aiding the likes of Iran and North Korea, who are and will directly contribute to the 'eruption of violence' that you profess to fear.
