Surveys show Americans believe foreign aid is 25% of the federal budget. It’s less than 1%. The public is misinformed about what the US spends money on, which creates an abstract desire to “cut spending” that’s extremely difficult to translate into policy. https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/what-every-american-should-know-about-us-foreign-aid/
no it's dumber than that Americans seem to think their military spending somehow allows the rest of the world to not spend money on the military
it's true, we probably wouldn't have social democracies up here in Scandinavia if we spent $1.5 trillion every year on self-destructing planes
that is true although some might say that we should simply spend less money on killing people
no :dril:
alright very much back on board :strangelove-wow: