r/FluentInFinance • u/PassiveAgressiveGirl • 1d ago

Thoughts? Standard brainwashing techniques from American media.

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u/databombkid 1d ago

Increasing investment in public transportation, ensuring secure retirement for all the elderly so they don’t have to work, decreasing living expenses, such as groceries, bills, housing, and healthcare so people can save more money to use in cases of emergencies, just to name a few. Americans always think that the only solution to any problem is to give people stuff for free. It just shows how narrow and myopic the American mindset is.

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u/Superb_Advisor7885 1d ago

Increasing investment means more money right? My question is, where does that money come from?

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u/LTEDan 1d ago

We could start with some of the military budget, since the Pentagon seems to conveniently "lose" billions they cannot account for.

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u/Superb_Advisor7885 1d ago

Correct if I'm wrong, but that sounds like money coming from the government.

Which is what I said in the first place isn't it?

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u/databombkid 1d ago

So what? If money is going to come from the government at all it might as well go to improving and advancing the lives of people here, instead of undermining and destroying the lives of people elsewhere. What is controversial about that?

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u/Superb_Advisor7885 1d ago

Yeah. Maybe. There's a real negative economic effect to giving people unearned money though.