Paul Krugman speaks for the lib mindset: "It's about $80 billion so far, which sounds like a lot but..." He also throws in a little horseshoe theory.

InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net · edit-2 2 years ago

Paul Krugman speaks for the lib mindset: "It's about $80 billion so far, which sounds like a lot but..." He also throws in a little horseshoe theory.

FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net · 2 years ago

but is only a bit more than 1 percent of the federal budget

“…And besides, it’s almost all just getting funneled directly into our Military Industrial Complex so it doesn’t really count anyway”

also lol, using the entire federal budget’s not trying to be intentionally misleading at all, right? $80 billion is almost 10% of our non-defense discretionary budget