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I hate it

Eisenhower was absolutely correct about the military industrial complex.

⁠@@abrahamlincoln937Based Eisenhussy

What a great topic to cover. I hope we achieve world peace before the AI singularity. Otherwise I don't see us avoiding a future of armed robots.

Instead of blowing stuff up and destroying, we could be building and investing.

But the big guy needs his 10% off dead Eastern Europeans. Vote Joe Out 2024

quickest way to destroy the world economy fr

@@iammrbeatwould love for you do a video on world military spending from a PPP angle + benefits/pay (which is like $200 billion of defense spending). We spend way more per solidier both while they’re active (for pay & individual gear) as well as retirement benefits; I realized why other countries have to force people to serve after I learned the massive difference. Anyway, with that info included in a ppp analysis: US spending isn’t quite as outrageous as it seems on the face of it. I enjoy your perspective, not to mention your talent for simplifying complex subjects 🙂

"I want to talk about the war in the Persian Gulf.. big doings in the Persian Gulf, you know my favorite part of that war? It was the first war we ever had that was on every channel plus cable and the war got good ratings too didn't it?. well we like war were a warlike people, we like war because we're good at it, you know why were good at it? because we get a lot of practice. This country's only two hundred years old already and we've had ten major Wars. We average a major war every twenty years in this country so we're good at it and it's a good thing we are we ain't good at anything else anymore; can't build a decent car, can't make a TV set or a VCR worth a f***, got no steel industry left, can't educate our young people, can't get healthcare to our old people but we can bomb the s*** out of your country alright huh? Especially if your country is full of brown people, oh! we like that don't we? That's our hobby, that's our new job in the world: bombing brown people. Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Lybia you got some brown people in your country tell them to watch the f*** out or we'll goddamn bomb them! Well when was the last white people you can remember that we bombed? Can you remember the last white.....can you remember ANY white people we've ever bombed? The Germans, those the only ones and that's because they were trying to cut in on our action they wanted to dominate the world BULLSHIT THAT'S OUR F****** JOB! Now, we only bomb brown people not because they're trying to cut in on our action just because they're brown. Now you've probably noticed I don't feel about that war the way we were told to feel about that war the way we were ordered and instructed by the United States government to feel about that war. You see I tell you my mind doesn't work that way. I got this real moron thing I do; it's called THINKING! and I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. I don't just roll over when I'm told to. Sad to say, most Americans roll over on command not me I have certain rules I live by; my first rule is: I don't believe anything the government tells me... nothing, zero, no. And I don't take very seriously the Media or the Press in this country who in the case of the Persian Gulf War were nothing more than unpaid employees of the department of defence and who most of the time, most of the time functioned as an unofficial public relations agency to the US government. So I don't listen to them and I really don't believe in my country and I got to tell you folks I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags because I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded. Me? I look at war a bit differently. To me war is a lot of prick waving okay. Simple thing that's all it is. War is a whole lot of man standing out in the field waving their pricks at one another. Men are insecure about the size of their dicks and so they have to kill one another over the idea. That's what all that a****** jock bulshit is about. That's what all that adolescent macho-male posturing and strutting in bars and locker rooms is all about is called Dick fear. Men are terrified that their pricks are inadequate and so they have to compete with one another to feel better about themselves and since Wars the ultimate competition, basically, men are killing each other to in order to improve their self-esteem. You don't have to be a historian or political scientist to see the bigger dick foreign policy theory at work, it sounds like this "WHAT?! they have bigger dicks? BOMB THEM!" and of course the rockets and the bombs and the bullets are all shaped like dicks, it's a subconscious need to project the penis into other people's affairs, it's called F****** WITH PEOPLE! So as far as I'm concerned that whole thing in the Persian Gulf is nothing more than one biiiig prick waving dick fight. In this particular case Saddam Hussein had questioned the size of George Bush's dick and George Bush has been called a wimp for so long - "wimp" rhymes with "limp" - George has been called wimp for so long that he has to act out his manhood fantasies by sending other people's children to die. Even the name Bush, even the name bush is related to the genitals without being the genitals. A bush is sort of a passive secondary sex characteristic. Now if this man's name had been George Boner...well he would have felt a little better about himself and we wouldn't had any trouble over there in the first place. This whole country has a manhood problem, biiiig manhood problem in the USA. You can tell from the language we use, language always gives you away. What did we do wrong in Vietnam? We pulled out! huh?.. Not a very manly thing to do is it? When you're f****** people, you got to stay there and f*** them good, f*** them all the way, f*** until the end, f****** to death, f****** to death, f****** the death.. stay in there and keep f****** them until they're all dead! We left a few women and children alive in Vietnam and we haven't felt good about ourselves since. That's why in the Persian Gulf George Bush had to say "This will not be another Vietnam" he actually use these words, he said: "This time we're going all the way" imagine an American president using the sexual slang of a thirteen-year-old to describe his foreign policy? If you want to know what happened in the Persian Gulf just remember the names of the two men who were running that war: Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, somebody got f***** in the ass" - We like War / George Carlin

Nah that's no fun let's go drone strike more hospitals and schools in the Middle East again! For Democracy of course!

USA has spent 20 trillion on the war on poverty but ur telling me 1/18 of the usa millitray budget could end homelessness

@@billyosullivan3192 the war on poverty was a sham just like the war on drugs.

Yeah, if If I have the obligation to pay taxes the government has the obligation of telling me where my money ends up, and if I have to be honest about my taxes they have to be honest about where they spend my money.

It took the Department of Homeland Security 10 years to pass its audit, the DOD is 10x larger than homeland. It should do better, but still this isn't as crazy as I think you're making it out to be. Not being able to account for something in an audit doesn't mean missing!

Sure it isn't going towards growing the Navy? Those ships are expensive

@@tristinjudd2595 Who do you think builds those ships?

@nasis18 not PMC's lol. Mercenaries aren't cheap man for man compared to a uniformed soldier, but that doesn't mean very much. I cost 80k dollars for my first year in the army, that's everything including my barracks, basic training, ammo for the range, toilet paper, you name it. 1 year of me is cheaper than a hmmwv. Meanwhile a B2 spirit costs 2 billion dollars just to buy in the first place, not including fuel, maintenance, security, officers making 6 figure salaries to fly it, etc. Pmc's have some nice hardware and the individual is much more expensive, but it's nothing compared to the air force or navy. This guy's nuts.

@@davidbeasley962 PMCs doesn't just entail "mercenaries," but any private military contractor or corporation that has government contracts with the DoD. These companies routinely way overcharge the military for many different things. The politicians won't crack down on this because they are in the companies back pocket. The B2, like you mentioned, is expensive, but it doesn't help that companies gouge the military on parts and other things to keep that equipment running. The DoD can't account for trillions of dollars and have failed their last 6 audits in a row.

@@davidbeasley962 right because Huntington Ingalls Industries isn’t a private military corporation… wait I’m not retarded! Yes they are! And guess who is a giant shareholder there? Black Rock! Guess what they do????? FUND ALL KIKDS OF US PMC BULLSHIT SUMBASS

Starting at the local level wont do anything. Regardless of how honest and hard working a local politician is, he or she still needs a lot of capital to run at the national level. To run, you need special interest money. To get reelected, you need special interest money. In order to rid this influence, you need campaign finance reform, which will never happen since the special interests give kickbacks to the politicians. When it comes down to brass tax, a politician will put financial wellbeing over country any day of the week - and there's a reason politicians are allowed to trade stocks and never seem to get audited. We've gone from the founding of the Union, when Congressional seats were part-time roles with frequent turnover to today, where these dinosaurs sit in these positions for 20+ years and magically 10-100X their personal wealth during their time in office...

im a believer of a good military. the us being the world police beats russia or china but yeah i think it would be better if more funds went to healthcare and college. i read up somewhere that the military spending is inefficient and wasteful

@@bruh-bn3ni did you hear how much money the Pentagon has lost track of? $220 BILLION

In 2022 we spent ~$767 billion on national defense. Same year the us federal government spent $755 billion on just Medicare. Universal healthcare will be a process much larger than national defense and the sector is 20% of the us economy. It really is a more complicated question since creating such a system is much more difficult than funding an existing one.

There's a simple solution to this problem and that is to hold the department of defense accountable by eliminating the waste they could easily cut the bloated military budget in half. The same thing can be said about our government healthcare system by simply cutting the waste and fraud they could easily cut the bloated budget in half. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

@@halfulford3081 could you please point to the waste and fraud you claim is about half of where the budget goes for Medicare and DoD.

Only one country has this

@Yao Li Ang I few do in Africa but that's it

@@yaoliang1580 Russia and China does it too. Russia less so only because they are poor

The cia is the worst branch of government ever started in 1947. Just Google , CIA scandals. And remember it's not torture, it is enhanced interrogation. WTF!

@@howardman3926 the purpose of China's few military bases are not for greed or world dominance but as a defence against the insanity of the US n its vassal states like Britain, Australia n Canada etc.

Could you please elaborate?

It took you decades to figure that out? Lol. America 🤷‍♂️

It is in many ways a job creation program. As long as it supports the US and allies, it is all great.

Well, distributes money to the company owners and to the government. But that it won't be spent on the betterment of society makes it kind of useless to us.

Thanks for CONTRIBUTING to the MIC...I don't feel sorry for any of y'all.

It really does. I'm all for humanitarian aid, but often the weapons we send out end up just hurting civilians.

enough for free healthcare and tertiary education for all, lol.

@@doctorothon universal free healthcare would cost less in taxes than it costs in insurance premiums. We wouldn't even have to cut the military budget for it. Of course I'm all for cutting the military funding by a huge amount, leaving little more than enough to fund care and rewards for our veterans

@@TheModdedwarfare3 absolutely constant cuts to the VA and reps call themselves the veteran party and “support our troops” they’re not supporting anyone but oligarchs

@@TheModdedwarfare3 Gets invaded. Dies.

Yup. Spend it or lose it. Almost universal in government budgeting right down to the municipal level though

We're BROKE. This has got to be one of the most irresponsible constructs ever. The U.S. is the only country in the history of the world to not use it's own military to guard it's own border. I've honestly thought about emigrating!

@@josephinetracy1485 Wait, do you support the right to travel freely around the world, or do you support locking everybody inside feudal state borders. It sounds like both at the same time. You can't emigrate, because other countries won't let you in... because... well... you know... they secured their borders. Either you support the right to travel and the freedom of movement around the planet, or you stand against it...

@@choppergirl Apparently you missed the "only country in the history of the world" part. Since I don't think that you missed it, I refuse to answer.

@@josephinetracy1485Well, you are welcome to answer. Just remember, securing borders is a double edge sword and can work against you just as well. If the US secures it's border against Mexico and Canada, for example... Mexico and Canada will turn right around and secure it's border against the US. And then you won't be able to vacation in either, or... well... leave... at least not by a land route. You could fly to another country, but if the US doesn't allow immigrants from that country, that country will turn around tit for tat and do the same, so as soon as you'll land you'll be directed to fly right back where you came from.... And then we have a planet locked down into feudal nation states like feudal Europe, where nobody can travel and is tied to the land.

@@josephinetracy1485 is because they think border patrol is enough

Exactly

Minimum wage...

Aren't we actually charging these poor bastards for doing our dirty work? They are expected to some how pay us back, they aren't gifts.

Clearly they don’t care about the working class and homeless.

We spend a lot more on the social safety net than the military. Both need to be cut drastically.

Not to mention, having military presence in other people's homeland does not create a good look. Making a country seem nosey to the point where they can militarily intervene in foreign places doesn't exactly make locals feel safe about their OWN domestic space and sovereignty.

I really want to read his book, though.

@@iammrbeat the book is called America town: building the outposts of empire. Mr beat, you're a kansas guy right? I am also, and that uncle is actually a KU grad

Your uncle probably got indoctrinated by woke propaganda…the reason the us military is the best the best…is becouse we have the most bases and beeen in the most wars…so stop your privledged woke narrative and be grateful you live in the bet country in the world

​@@tylercooper1551 don't most us conservative prefer isolation

Gates is a wise dude.

to your last point, yes, but if you don't have a strong military people will start wars with you anyway. America should (and imo has) stop trying to be the words policemen and move onto private security for it's allies.

The military gets bent over at the point of sale for just about everything from fighters to a roll of paper towels. If you could see some of the invoices for simple items that claim to be Military Grade you’d probably want to throw up. I remember climbing into the back of one of our smaller helicopters where the Rescue Swimmer sits to get a feel for how cramped it was back there, when he told me how much that 4” foam cushion cost I refused to believe him. It’s a little 2’x2’ quick drying seat cushion and the price tag is mind boggling! I wish I could remember the amount but just think of a high end price for a fancy cushion and multiply that by 20.

One might have difficulty believing the other nations are negotiating in good faith. After the cold war we stopped producing uranium pits. Other nations didn't stop accumulating warheads and arms just because there was a treaty. Refusal to allow inspections, hidden operations not observable by satellite or aerial photo kept these efforts up as the U.S. presumably continued to act in good faith. So the question is this: given that we're actually now behind in warheads and uranium pits to create the proper detonation cycle as China and Russia aid Iran and North Korea while outpacing us, why do you think diplomacy could work?

@@EagleZoo I don’t see how any country can truly trust that the US is operating in good faith based on our history of self service at the expense of everyone else.

Nah, they still need us. We have more power than you realize.

@@iammrbeat Well you have made me much more aware of how the government works and more motivated to engage in politics, so thank you.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gZp_ZqdoqMy4mHU.html I believe that this is a great explanation

@@iammrbeat We would have power if we all agreed to not pay taxes if they didn’t fix something or if we didn’t go to work as a country or a large majority

@@calidawg510 the people that actually pay the taxes aren't complaining.

Heck yeah. I appreciate the feedback.

@@chemicalfrankie1030 such as? I’m open to your explanation; make it good

We don't have to be spicy and name names because then well-intentioned people will hate instead of picking up on (respective) constructive elements of our suggestions. The truth is you can't serve these many masters, and it's why we're kept so disoriented and divided. There is so much effort put into personal interests that our interests are neglected. Love is the only truth and everything else is an illusion - a Shooter Jennings quote

You name one name and you end up with so many enemies 'all the rest of the names' don't get the credit they deserve.

Case in point, Eisenhower names the military industrial complex and is 100% a figure in such construct.

Not Russia........half a million iraqis.

Unfathomably based

The US doesn't have government run healthcare because the quality of care is much higher at a private doctor. And since the US has a higher per capita income than Europe, Americans can afford this higher standard of care. The European government run system is not designed to be of higher quality; it's designed to be cheaper. Even the people that advocate such a system here--I mean serious people, not college students who know nothing but think they know everything--speak in terms of getting costs under control. No serious person argues that a government run system results in higher quality of care, because that's absurd. Communist countries had terrible quality of care. The British NHS is notorious for red tape and long waits for appointments. Doctors get paid slave wages, which reduces the quality of people entering the profession.

@@EdgeSanityGaming How shocking that many would rather have lower quality of care that covers everyone rather than high quality care that only helps some.

@@Iamnotimaginative Virtually everyone in the US who is willing to work has health insurance. Those who can't or won't have access to government programs (Medicaid, Medicare). The main issue facing the healthcare system, again, is costs, not quality of care or access. And the single thing driving the costs is obesity, which is an economic (rare case of too much affluence causing a problem) and cultural problem, not a problem with the healthcare system. We don't need a terrible, government run healthcare system. We need to stop eating ourselves to death.

I was a Navy Storekeeper. I know.

If you don't use up your budget next one will be smaller.Gotta use it up.

This story is most convincing as is, without details, dates, places, or sources. Today's lower-educated citizens eat it up, wanting endless free stoff handed out personally. In fact, let's just say the crew sunk the entire ship before reaching port to 'JUSTIFY MORE SPENDING".

I recall a similar incident happening in Afghanistan not too long ago...

@@bustedupgrunt1177 I don’t know why you felt the need to take that so personally - I was pretty transparent that it was just a story I heard lol

That's messed up 😐

That's literally the point. It's not that having a military is bad, it's that military industry profiteering is super corrupt. It kind of raises questions about whether or not profit is even good at all...

@@grantmccoy6739 Those military suppliers are sponsors for policitians' campaign.

You may have been a FAA mechanic but you don’t seem to all too well informed. EVERY part is built to specification, and specified for use by the government. All of their parts, systems, and end products are complex and subject to rigorous inspection and testing. You think a contractor specified the clamps? No, they just made them. Make to order, especially new systems, are produced in low volume which drives costs due to economies of scale. Also, all contractors are profit regulated and financially audited basically non stop by multiple government agencies. It’s expensive to do business with the government, so many regulations and risks.

I've been noticing an awful lot of military propaganda on the evening news in the past several months. Stuff like touring aircraft carriers, fearmongering about how underprepared we are for China invading Taiwan, even complaining about jobs for military spouses. Funny how the solution for all those problems seems to be "spend more money on the military."

I appreciate the kind words!

Yup, I feel like most Americans could easily become warmongers and not even realize it

The MIC runs deep, literally so pervasive that it's engrained into our very culture. The Department of Defense often loans its equipment to movie studios to use in filming (think like a helicopter in an action movie or jets in top gun). As a prerequisite for using their equipment the DoD will review scripts for the movies they lend equipment to and will withhold equipment if there is something in the script they don't approve of (i.e. usually something that is critical of the military). There are literally internally released transcripts from the DoD that admit to doing this. So yes the MIC does influence our media and films, which in turn has a massive impact on American culture.

War being glorified is a tradition dating back since the rise of tribes and civilization. It’s a great honor to serve your people and sacrifice if need be. I experienced combat in Afghanistan and I don’t want to be part of it again. However I would still do it for America. Watching war movies inspires people to serve and to be some body, this is why I joined the Marines. But many of these films show the bad side of war which is the main lesson.

I prefer having peace, too.

I'm from a war torn nation and our cultural leaders would send boys to go kill to start a war then he would call and ask for money cause he's being attacked. War is truly just a racket.

So an ex military would get employed because of his shooting skills? A doubt that.

​@A straight right beats the left no but a nuclear engineer from the navy would be employed by some scientific industries

@@Movingforward2000 Cartel killer yes.

I read that pilots are also usually poached by private sector after Air Force trains and gives them valuable experience. 🔺💯 Private security, security consultants is also another skill that benefits from the military. I cant think of places outside the military and law enforcement that can give experience in actual combat.

And?

Geez

wow, maybe we should fund more trains, that'd be great

Dang work

You might as well ban retirement accounts lol. So many large companies have some kind of military contract or other defense related contract.

easier said than done. everyone keep voting them into office.

Better idea: if we're going to have troops in a country, we must have declared war upon them. And upon any declaration of war, the draft is in effect for all persons aged between 18 and 40. No deferments, no exceptions. Somehow, I think that every person being faced with their kids being sent off somewhere will do a lot to blunt the appetite for foreign adventure.

This will bring more problems than its worth, as the Video points out the US Needs its Military to exert such a massive influence in Foreign Politics, doing this would mean Contractors would also move to other ventures likely her enemies included. The Problem is yeah encentives but this pushes the dial way too much to the opposite direction.

@@daz-ut1sd that and give Classifed Documents to Russia, its not like Lockhead Martin would do nothing if this gets passed.

Thank you so much, Matt!

Lol not even close. What was meant by that statement was that Prussian society was completely militarized. EVERYTHING was geared towards supporting the military. America is nowhere even remotely close.

They have gone far beyond the prussions

@@yaoliang1580 You clearly don't know much about Prussia or the US.

@@gingerlicious3500 “The United States is a war machine masquerading as a country whose political class and mass media are so thoroughly brainwashed as to be beyond redemption.” Finian Cunningham

Good point, but stats dont add up. The US military budget's share of total GDP has gone down from 7% during the cold war era to 3.5% today, which is exactly half!

Tupac! One of my all-time favorite songs.

They have the money to feed the poor but don't care. Government is made up of people and these people only care about their interests.

Not even a hot take

Thanks John!

No

@@Illumirage Yes it is. The U.S. is garbage at literally every foreign related problems it tries to "solve".

Thank you. At least folks these days are more aware of it.

Either the military industrial complex is to be destroyed, or has its clients dominates the world will the military industrial complex evolve into a triumphal boon, or a vanquished bane humans will remember and record

If you are in the west you benefit directly from the USA huge defense spending. Even if you eliminated DOD spending I don't think you would like the consequences of it.

If you have not done a deep dive into historical civilizations, past global crises (i.e., plagues, wars, famines etc.), and economics, please consider reading more about those topics. While most American citizens are fed up with the politics and do not condone killing, things have been much worse. Since we are exposed to so much information, life appears to be bleak. We can believe that we are doomed or believe in solutions. While there will always be problems, we are actually much better off when it comes to economics, physical and mental health, education, and safety. Mr. Beats did a fantastic job at explaining the industrial complex. While there’s room for improvement, completely changing our current system will produce consequential challenges and problems. It will take time and patience.

@@GMAMEC Radical changes are indeed not the perfect way to transform the military industrial political impasse that tips America from it's narrowing balance

Or just pay less in taxes

Exactly

Okay I’ll bite, how? The US has overall the best military equipment in the world. A lot of that development came from the private sector.

Everything with this much money in it is sure to become a racket for the pockets of the greedy. Ppl in high positions get lost in decadence and corruption and finally when a bigger dog comes along you're too busy fighting amongst yourselves over personal scraps and then you'd get punk'd like a bch.

How does it make it harder. Explain

@@jonharrison3114 For example, the military industry's outsized influence/control over Congress and the Pentagon means that they prioritize profits over efficiency, even during wartime. And that is just one side of the triangle.

Pretty much all civilizations have a specific class that holds all the real power. Whether it's the government, religious leaders, bureaucrats, military, or merchant class.

@@MP-dn4bs And the goal of the American Democracy was to prevent said people from having such power. Yet look where we are now? Such is life sadly

But corporations are made up of people. They can be taken down more easily than governments.

@@iammrbeat True, though by the same idea they can be better organized than some states. Hawaii, Iraq, and Honduras and Nicaragua are examples of private exploitation on unprepared or already disintegrated governmental organizations.

Americans have long hated the idea of their government having too much power. Corporations were able to spin this into people abhorring the government having any control over corporations whatsoever. Power is a zero-sum game. If the government doesn't have it, someone else does.

Also important to note that we dont spend the most on our military as a share of our GDP in the world. That would go to Oman which spends 8.8% of its GDP on the military, while we at spot number 14 spend 3.4%.

Thinking like an economist. I love it, but emotionally it's a bit difficult for most folks to connect with.

@@baldurofwrath GDP is not really a good measure for anything.

@@page8301 I think it can be pretty good when trying compare the sizes of countries economies, but I do agree that things like GDP per capita are not always the best indicators of well being. It also creates issues when looking at things like workers who leave their home country to work somewhere else, although that is why we have values like GNP (Gross National Product)

The US isn't number one in military spending per capita (it's number 2 after Israel). Numbers 3 to 8 aren't that far away from the US. The US spends 2,595.44$ per capita compared to Kuwait ,which is number 8, that spends 1,814.21$ per capita.

McCarthy and members of the House took military spending and tax increases off the table before negotiations even began. It’s almost like debt and money isn’t the main reason they’re doing this.

heh heh well put

What "massive" military spending. US Defence spending is only 3.4% of GDP. Near an all time low.

@@practicaliching2311 nah bro you can’t be serious. Medicaid costs $100 billion less than the pentagon and SNAP costs $700 billion less, but Republicans have no issue cutting that spending

@@practicaliching2311 It's insanity to use a percentage of GDP when talking about 21st century USA, whose GDP in 2023 is ~$27 TRILLION. Those "only 3.4% of GDP" and "near an all-time low" lines actually translate to ~$857.9 BILLION (the largest figure ever).

Then that mite start a war?⚠️⭕✌️

😂😂😂😂😂. Very well crafted

I used to teach it, as well as some of my colleagues, but I do realize we were the exception compared to most high school social studies teachers.

It's worse than that. No one knows how things are made not just tanks, fighter jets, but other mundane things like smart phones, cars, roads, indoor plumbing and food. With Amazon free 2-day shipping people are very much disconnected.

I think Metal Gear Solid 4 mentioned it. But i think its talked about, but obviously military itself doesnt say that probably

THIS! this is going on in Pittsburgh as well, can only imagine LA being 100x worse

I think if they keep spending so much money on the military, then the military should be obligated to do more domestic service projects like taking care of the homeless and getting them back on their feet. Like have military men run soup kitchens or help these people get jobs again

If you care, I personally know and personally have benefited from this complex. The issue is housing. We need more affordable housing.

There's some iron triangles for homelessness at the state (CA) and local (LA county & city) levels, sure, but they aren't anywhere near the driving force (like in the MIC). CA (Gov Regan) was closing all its mental institutions around 50 years ago, relying on community treatment facilities, which were never built. Surprise surprise, prison populations swelled with people needing mental health services. Around 10 years ago CA (Gov Brown) released many prisoners, especially those with mental illness and addictions. So guess where they live today? The terrible cycle in play now is that living on the streets is harsh, health issues and addictions only get worse.

His statement at 1:20 is BS. CA's big cities have spent more than that, it hasn't made a dent. $22 billion might be how much it costs to pay for facilities with a number of beds = the number of people living on the streets at the moment, but the govt making that purchase is a far cray from "ending homelessness"

Can't feed the poor but we got money for war

That means a lot. Thank YOU

Thank you Jacob!

Indeed , lets also not forget about the countless democracies the CIA has overthrown around the globe only to replace them with a Dictatorship that is US "friendly".

Preach it

but hey railguns look cool so

Indeed.

We go to war to prepare the invasion of.... THE EMUS!!!!

@@realllllllycool This but unironically.

Harris has been strong on this topic!

Lol, I would like to look at this story. Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman are literally in the S&P 500 companies.

The companies that handle logistics for Afghanistan war got massive links with both Hillary and that old Kentucky governor or something, I forgot his name. There's nothing to fight for in Afghanistan thats related to US freedoma, but its insanely profitable for military complex to keep the troops there.

He’s not going to possibly jeopardize his retirement by giving you his personal opinion. Smart Man. Everyone is a chatty patty and they have social media. Sometimes you have to play dumb

Thanks!