The United States has announced $345 million in military aid for Taiwan, in what is the Biden administration’s first major package drawing on America’s own stockpiles to help Taiwan counter China.

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    1 year ago

    Military industrial complex is firing on all cylinders. I’m all for the aid to these countries just wish our government did more for the everyday person on top of this.

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      1 year ago

      Last time us everyday people got something from the government, we were blamed for the resulting inflation, which had nothing to do with it, but it makes a good sound bite…

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      1 year ago

      Because the everyday person is an idiot.

      Obama expended all his political capital on getting a watered down healthcare expansion passed and republicans took Congress for almost a decade because of it.

      Biden starts cleaning up the absolute mess that Trump left and starts taking care of people to alleviate effects of the pandemic, and republicans take the House preventing pretty much anything else from being done.

      As soon as any minor good starts being done people scream about taxes and elect republicans.