It was revealed this week that president Joe Biden is going to request $770 billion
for the upcoming year's Pentagon budget. One of the biggest budgets that we have ever seen
for anything here in the United States to spend on an already over bloated US military, $770
billion. As Americans struggle with inflation, as they struggle to make ends meet,
as they prepare to have to pay back their student loans that have been on pause for two years now,
Biden wants to give the military $770 billion. And they say it's for all these vital things,
right? We gotta build more ships. We gotta, we gotta buy more F 35 jets.
We gotta have all this new technology that apparently didn't exist for this year's $740
billion Pentagon budget, say the very same people who tell us, we can't afford universal healthcare
or universal student loan debt forgiveness. Or a green new deal, or anything at all that would
actually benefit your life. And honestly, that's where a lot of this saber-rattling with Russia,
Ukraine, all that is coming from. We have to make it seem always like there's this imminent threat
right on the horizon. So if we don't spend 700, 800, 900 billion dollars on the military every
year, that threat's coming to our borders and we're all gonna die. We have to spend
that money. And again, this is a yearly thing. This isn't $770 billion over the next 10 years.
This is $770 billion over the next 12 months, which means we as a country would be spending,
what would that be, roughly $65 billion per month on military. That's insane.
When you have American citizens making the choice between whether or not they're gonna
fill their prescriptions or feed their family, that's insane. That is inhumane is what that is.
That is a massive humanitarian crisis of our own creation because clearly we have the money.
Clearly we have the money for things like universal healthcare or student loan debt
forgiveness. But rather than spending it on that, which would actually help the economy and every
study that's looked at it has shown that, would inject more money in, the federal government
would make more money. But instead of actually helping average everyday people, we're gonna
help the Raytheons. We're gonna help Lockheed Martin. We're gonna help Boeing. We're gonna
help all of these defense contractors put more money in their pockets because let's be honest,
that's where the bulk of this money goes. It's not going to help increase the pay of service members.
It's not going to buy them better equipment so that they don't get killed in the field.
Oh, sure, a little bit here, a little bit there, right? Enough to just maybe shut 'em up for a
little bit. But their lives will still be in danger. You know, who's lives won't be? The CEOs,
the officials at the Pentagon calling the shots, the members of the Biden administration pushing
for &770 billion, they're gonna be fine and they're gonna keep spending this money and they're
gonna spend it every year. My prediction is that within the next two years, we're gonna hit $800
billion a year with this Pentagon budget. We're gonna keep seeing these ridiculous talking points
from Antony Blinken saying, oh, Russia's gonna invade Ukraine at 1:00 AM tomorrow.
That actually happened this week. They, they predicted that. They said Russia was gonna
attack Ukraine at 1:00 AM in the morning with 200,000 troops. That was the headline.
And then of course it was, nope. They're gonna attack on February
16th. Oh Nope. They're gonna attack on, on the 20th. Oh, they're gonna attack on the 21st now.
They're doing this so they can sell you on this $770 billion budget.
Now that's not an excuse for what Putin is doing over there. Putin is an absolute tyrant,
a horrible leader and a horrible person. We know the atrocities he has committed.
But he is not dumb enough to get into this mutually assured destruction conflict with
Ukraine, knowing that the United States would be there to swoop in and start a massive world war.
So all of this saber-rattling is to sell us this budget. People are dying in this country. Kids
are going hungry. People are making tough choices. Inflation is killing us. People
are being kicked out of their homes. But rather than help any single one of them, we're gonna
help these already billionaire corporations get extra money in their pockets for the next year.