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Wounded Bear

(62,577 posts) Sat Jul 12, 2025, 08:23 PM Jul 12

$180 Billion for ICE more or less. Imagine if we had spent that on...

Immigration judges and courts and processing centers.

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$180 Billion for ICE more or less. Imagine if we had spent that on... (Original Post) Wounded Bear Jul 12 OP

Or the homeless! Enter stage left Jul 12 #1

Nice deflection...nt Wounded Bear Jul 12 #2

I was reading the other day Tree Lady Jul 12 #3

Or education.... The Madcap Jul 12 #4

Or on the Nation's Seven Hydrogen Hubs MrWowWow Jul 12 #5

How are private contractor CEOs to feed their children? leftstreet Jul 12 #6

Or how about instead of building a bunch of new prisons, we were building a LOT of new housing Ars Longa Jul 12 #7

And healthcare surfered Jul 12 #8

The homeless? dlilafae Jul 13 #9

What?? And defund the police??? WhiskeyGrinder Jul 13 #10

Enter stage left

(4,078 posts)

1. Or the homeless!

Reply to Wounded Bear (Original post)

Sat Jul 12, 2025, 08:24 PM

Jul 12

Wounded Bear

(62,577 posts)

2. Nice deflection...nt

Reply to Enter stage left (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 12, 2025, 08:27 PM

Jul 12

Tree Lady

(12,560 posts)

3. I was reading the other day

Reply to Wounded Bear (Original post)

Sat Jul 12, 2025, 08:54 PM

Jul 12

That republicans call us the tax and spend party.

Amazing how everyone believes that when they spend by the trillions on their cuts for the rich.

The Madcap

(1,342 posts)

4. Or education....

Reply to Wounded Bear (Original post)

Sat Jul 12, 2025, 09:14 PM

Jul 12

No. We love the uneducated.

MrWowWow

(651 posts)

5. Or on the Nation's Seven Hydrogen Hubs

Reply to Wounded Bear (Original post)

Sat Jul 12, 2025, 09:47 PM

Jul 12

Each had at least $1.2B coming to them. All have had that funding paused. Nature bats last....and always hits a grand slam home run. FAFO now in progress.

leftstreet

(36,893 posts)

6. How are private contractor CEOs to feed their children?

Reply to Wounded Bear (Original post)

Sat Jul 12, 2025, 09:51 PM

Jul 12

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Ars Longa

(209 posts)

7. Or how about instead of building a bunch of new prisons, we were building a LOT of new housing

Reply to Wounded Bear (Original post)

Sat Jul 12, 2025, 09:57 PM

Jul 12

so young people can get into home ownership...?

surfered

(8,166 posts)

8. And healthcare

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Sat Jul 12, 2025, 11:07 PM

Jul 12

dlilafae

(264 posts)

9. The homeless?

Reply to Wounded Bear (Original post)

Sun Jul 13, 2025, 09:25 AM

Jul 13

The hungry? The forgotten population? Paying our PUBLIC school teachers better? Started a campaign to raise the minimum wage? Campaigned to make groceries, hospital bills, medicine, and insurance more affordable? Naw. They never considered doing any of that. Instead, they chose to spend a portion of our paychecks to jail us. And we went home after work, armed with that knowledge, sat in our armchairs, swearing at the evening news, and hoped that he would die and it would all be over soon. Here's my hope: due to our inaction, I hope we get to continue 'hoping' from our chairs, and not from Alcatraz. Once they round-up all the browns, the Democratic women are next.

WhiskeyGrinder

(25,392 posts)

10. What?? And defund the police???

Reply to Wounded Bear (Original post)

Sun Jul 13, 2025, 09:28 AM

Jul 13

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