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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/scott-galloway-on-the-post-coronavirus-world-192052278.html

 

US Defense budget 600 billion..

CDC..12 billion...

Public health needs a bigger piece and less to military would make a better domestic environment too...

 

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Bold to assume the US government cares enough about public health to allocate money there :reductive:

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PinkJelly

I’m hopeful that if we all get through this, one of the good things to come out of it (at least here in the U.K.) is government properly funding services like the NHS, palliative care, charities that support or run food banks, police, the welfare system etc.

You have no idea how many people who’ve now lost their jobs, are self isolating or have had their hours dramatically reduced because of Covid-19 and are complaining that Universal Credit and/or Statutory Sick Pay isn’t enough to live on - people who relied on these sorts of benefits before this health crisis have been trying to tell the government that for years.

They’ll only now listen cause those who’ve never had to experience hardship before can’t  cope on £94 a week with a £250K Mortgage.

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Woolfsmck
7 minutes ago, PinkJelly said:

I’m hopeful that if we all get through this, one of the good things to come out of it (at least here in the U.K.) is government properly funding services like the NHS, palliative care, charities that support or run food banks, police, the welfare system etc.

You have no idea how many people who’ve now lost their jobs, are self isolating or have had their hours dramatically reduced because of Covid-19 and are complaining that Universal Credit and/or Statutory Sick Pay isn’t enough to live on - people who relied on these sorts of benefits before this health crisis have been trying to tell the government that for years.

They’ll only now listen cause those who’ve never had to experience hardship before can’t  cope on £94 a week with a £250K Mortgage.

I'm hoping that all free enterprise capitalistic economic policy makers re-think the priorities in favor of the general wealth not just corporate bottom line...

All people matter...🤒

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Almost everyone in the government is a cishet white guy. They didn't care about the AIDS crisis, they won't care about us now. Once this passes they'll go right back to their bullsh*t.

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Economy

The amount of wasted resources Globally on military still makes me sick. There's so much that can be accomplished with that much money AND labor :saladga:

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Woolfsmck
4 hours ago, Postboy said:

You would need to give the CDC a profit motive in order to make that happen in the US. 

Not much profit happening when everything is closed and people are getting fatal virus infection....

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PartySick
4 hours ago, Val said:

Almost everyone in the government is a cishet white guy. They didn't care about the AIDS crisis, they won't care about us now. Once this passes they'll go right back to their bullsh*t.

Our only consolation is that their voter base is the most mortally effected by this disease that they're refusing to take serious.

Not that their voters deserve it :rip: but they're shooting themselves in the foot here.

Whimsical bitch
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TimisaMonster

US spends trillions on weapons and military yet had to meet 3 times to discuss $2 trillion lol

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5 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Our only consolation is that their voter base is the most mortally effected by this disease that they're refusing to take serious.

Not that their voters deserve it :rip: but they're shooting themselves in the foot here.

And yet these people are still fervently voting red... :saladga:

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PartySick
19 minutes ago, Franz Ferdinand said:

And yet these people are still fervently voting red... :saladga:

Yup. All the old people living off retirement funds and social security support the guys who want to ignore a disease that kills old people, try to slash social benefit programs, and make it impossible to for anyone to even reliably have a retirement account :sharon:

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