• it’s fucked up we give billions a year in “aid” to a country with free higher education and universal healthcare while saying we can’t afford it for ourselves because it would cost billions a year…

    Reminds me of the GOP criticizing Obama for inaction on Syria as compared to his successor, when they enabled his successor but handicapped Obama.

    we can’t afford it for ourselves because it would cost billions a year…

    Of course the US can afford do to and pay for all of it. It’s just that the GOP is mostly ok with funding one of them and hates the idea of funding the other.

    If Israel values that over their own “defense”

    The answer of course is that Israel likely doesn’t - but US largesse allows them to not worry about paying for both.

    why do we value Israel’s “defense” more than that for our own citizen’s well being?

    The GOP.