We don't have healthcare because we have deathcare

[Aviation Pro]

In the form of the Department of Defense. This is a reverberation of the era following WWII when the boogeyman was the big, bad Soviet Union followed by the rise of the Great China with a detour into the Global War on Terror.

It was all a scam to inflate the portfolios of what Dwight Eisenhower, the last true Republican president, called the military-industrial complex.

That’s why we don’t have healthcare.

[Frasier Balzov]

1. LBJ though. Guns and butter.

The war in Vietnam escalates even as Medicare becomes law.

[Clouds Passing]

2. There's too many hoomins, we gotta xterminate

[usonian]

3. We can afford defense and healthcare if the rich paid their fair share.

The wealthy just don't want revenue going to the "wrong" people instead of themselves.
And get the morans to agree and vote them in.



and they like, own the government.



I worked for the government as a veteran and in aerospace.

Yes, war is a racket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket



Much, much, much worse when lives are lost and people are wounded.