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Quick let's send $50 billion more than will be unaccounted for while gas reaches $9 and we go into a deep recession.

I was under the impression that much of that is in military equipment.

The United States spends $700 billion a year in defense.

We spent a couple trillion in Afghanistan and it folded immediately. People in the government just took the money and fled.

Yeah which is also insane. 750 military bases around the world but don't you dare call the USA an empire!