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11. I've been thinking about how much tax money and manpower has been spent in the last

Reply to phylny (Original post)

Fri Sep 8, 2017, 09:03 PM

Sep 2017

several decades on the drug war and private prisons to house those people. Didn't help society it seems. Just think if all of those resources had been used to build shelters or at least to figure out a safe way to evacuate that many people.

The current powers that be don't really seem to notice that these storms are happening more often and with greater strength. And tRump didn't even know they could have droughts in the Dakotas and has he even noticed the west coast is burning?

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Let's spend more money on the military while Texas, Florida, USVI, Puerto Rico, and our neighbors in [View all] phylny Sep 2017 OP

Excuse my ignorance but what are you referencing? arthritisR_US Sep 2017 #1

No ignorance on your part. phylny Sep 2017 #2

Thank you for expounding, I have to echo how incensed you feel. I too arthritisR_US Sep 2017 #5

some of the gop senators who voted against the aid package drray23 Sep 2017 #3

And I'm anticipating that our fellow citizens are going to need more and more and more phylny Sep 2017 #4

Priorities matter..at least to us on the left. arthritisR_US Sep 2017 #7

It's sick on so many levels arthritisR_US Sep 2017 #6

lets cut taxes on the rich right away too! lunasun Sep 2017 #8

Yeah, because it appears we'll be needing fewer tax dollars, not more. n/t phylny Sep 2017 #9

It's a republican thing to do. liberal N proud Sep 2017 #10

I've been thinking about how much tax money and manpower has been spent in the last logosoco Sep 2017 #11