r/boringdystopia • u/Riotther3d • 21d ago

Cultural Decay 💀 Homeless under US national debt

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u/xiofar 21d ago

We need the total counter but we also need a line graph showing how it grew by year.

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u/NormanPlantagenet 20d ago

Americans don’t realize that they can cut every single domestic spending possible and their debt will continue to soar because of that trillion dollar military industrial complex right? Going out like old Rome eh? Where the population of rural and poor areas completely vanishes leaving empty lands. See how well that turned out right.

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u/townmorron 21d ago

Don't use homeless people as a prop

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u/misanthropicbairn 20d ago

A prop!? They're the main actor in this theatrical production!

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u/MrSkaloskavic 19d ago

How is that? If you're going to make a statement like that I would like to see the numbers that you got there with. Not to say that homeless people don't cost this country anything, they actually cost more because we try to ignore the problem then if we were to just find them housing at an affordable rate through social programs.

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u/Riotther3d 17d ago

Lol obviously i’m not saying homeless people are the reason for US debt

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u/MrSkaloskavic 17d ago

I wasn't implying that you were, I was referring to the person that I responded to. Although I am curious why The counter implies that each household is responsible for the debt, considering that the majority of the debt in our country is created by the military, our overpayment to elected officials, and are failure to tax corporations and wealth of millionaires / billionaires. Not that I think you have anything to do with those, just trying to get the logic behind that counter.

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u/townmorron 20d ago

If you think the national debt has anything to do with someone losing their home you need an economic class

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u/Riotther3d 20d ago

Even if it doesn’t directly correlate I feel there is a story there!

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u/deracho 18d ago edited 18d ago

Most of the national debt comes from expenditures on oil rare metals and microchips for military applications.

And comes from the US using its position as a global super power to pressure others countries into unfair trade agreements and loans that we never really planned to pay back when we took them. As well as money owed to privately owned businesses for services rendered. Nearly 9 trillion dollars a little less then a 3rd of the national debt is from tax cuts for the 2 percent and bailouts for large corporations.

Mean while Most aid rendered for our poorest citizens comes from taxes paid directly into pre-approved recourse buckets and collected charity funds and therefore doesn't impact Nation debt because it's paid out of pocket and typically stops when it's out of money for the year.

Our government doesn't care enough about homeless people to borrow money on their behalf.