Comments by "Dan A" (@DanA-nl5uo) on "US Senate overrides Trump's veto of defense bill | DW News" video.

Leave it to the United States Senate always money for war never money to help the citizens. Their priorities couldn't be more clear as they also shoot down a one time payment of $2000 for struggling citizens during a global pandemic.
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Trillions of dollars for the military industrial complex, trillions of dollars for wallstreet, $600 for working class Americans who are $5000 behind on rent and facing eviction during a global pandemic without any health insurance. That shows you the priorities of the GOP.
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They didn't stand up to trump they folded to the military industrial complex which bought them.
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@johngablesmith4671 nope the GOP was getting what their donors wanted the entire time. The equivalent of $32,000 per US citizen was transferred to the wealthy business owners with their pandemic response. Ask yourself would you be better off if the federal government had given you $32,000 per member of your household than you are now, that they gave that money to your Boss? Because the government did give that money to wallstreet and cooperations in 2020.
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@johnwattdotca you need to study the post WWII monetary system if you don't understand how the USA is able to keep increasing our monetary system without deflation of the dollar. It has to do with being the stand for international trade. Oil is just one of many things that are traded in dollars. Solar panels and wind turbines would work just as well.
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@dimitrivisser27 those people should be employed in ways that don't kill people. We would be far better off if our government paid the same people to manufacture windmills solar panels and batteries for the green new deal than bombs to drop in the middle east for oil. So yes it is just as bad as it sounds. Please do the math and prove the point about how much of the defense budget comes back as taxes. Because I suspect far more of it simply goes out to the wealthy share holders of the military industrial complex.
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@dimitrivisser27 I wonder if you even realize you are making an argument for socialism.
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@dimitrivisser27 the government employing the contractors is definitely socialism. We socialized the defense production because there isn't a profit motive for companies to stock pile weapons on the hope that the government might some day choose to invade a country and need a new fighter jet. So yes the defense budget is socialism. We have a mixed economy. I didn't call it communism because I actually understood the meaning of the words unlike people on the right who use them interchangeably. But I noticed you avoided the fact that those same workers could be better employed. Or do you think that my two best Friends having PTSD and 80% military disability from their role in the 2 decade old oil wars was just a jobs program with an acceptable side effect to keep those military contractors employed? I happen to believe it was a needless destruction of the lives of two very healthy happy young mens lives.
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@dimitrivisser27 you still haven't told me why it is a good jobs program to have my two best friends 80% disabled and suffering PTSD. Or why we need to spend more than the next 10 countries combined on the military? How is that a good investment?
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@dimitrivisser27 actually china is way bigger then the USA by every single metric so try again. But if you dont know what countries are the top 11 spender on defense you need to do your homework.
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@dimitrivisser27 oh and please explain why the population of the United States is relevant to a discussion about the military budget? Would there be less of a military threat to the United States then say China simply because our political is less than 1/3 of the population of China?
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@dimitrivisser27 China has a land area of 9.3 million square kilometers (3.6 million square miles), which is 2.2% larger than the US land area of 9.1 million square kilometers (3.5 million square miles).Apr 14, 2018 So by your logic we should spend 2.2% less than what China spends. With a population of 1.43 billion people, compared with about 329 million in the United States, China has a population that's more than four times the size of the U.S. population.Dec 23, 2019 If we go by population we should spend 1/4 of what China spends. China's annual military budget is estimated by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute to be about 1.7 trillion yuan. ... Using market exchange rates, China's annual military spending converts to about US$228 billion. By comparison, the US military budget is US$649 billion – or 3.2% of US GDP.Oct 1, 2019 Yet we spend nearly 3x as much as China does. So tell me again why it is 3x as expensive for the USA when your argument shows you think we should spend far less????
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@dimitrivisser27 I don't think the army has been on horse back in over 100 years so try again. Do you work for a defense contractor by any chance because I have shot down every single argument you have made and you have yet to tell me why having my best friends suffering 80% physical disability and PTSD is a good tax revenue and jobs program as your orginal claimed.
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@dimitrivisser27 oh it didn't take any time at all to Google the size of China vs the USA you should have tried it before make a fool of yourself by exposing your ignorance in public.
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@ethericboy which is why it was the perfect leverage to force Mitch McConnell to pass the $2000 payment to Americans. He had to pass it and the Democratic leadership knew Mitch was between a rock and a hard sport thanks to Trump. But being paid to lose they did what their donors wanted and screwed the citizens. A few days delay on the military budget wouldn't have ended the grift of the military industrial complex or the deaths for oil but it would have made a real difference to the American working class 1 in 3 of which are looking at eviction.
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