This war with Iran has already been remarkably expensive and there is no end in sight whatsoever. Yeah, no. In fact, there's just more and more and more and more and more news that comes out. That's like, actually guys, more strikes. Actually, guys, more strikes. Actually, this time it's more strikes. Four Week plan, actually just a little bit more. Just a couple more war, please. Yeah, and the Trump administration is still planning to ask Congress for like $50 billion in supplemental funding for the and Democrats are still planning to give it to them.

Yep, yep, yep, yep. We'll probably have the perfect amount of Democrats that switch up and vote alongside the Republicans. And that'll be a good time when we have to go and cover that. But this war generally always incredibly expensive, not just in terms of lives, but, you know, many, many conservatives

don't really care about the lives loss. What they care about is the money. Exactly. This is not a fiscally sound decision to be making. No, no, no, no, no, no, not at all. For many, many reasons. And as we talked about before, uh, this is only going to continue to get more and more expensive. It really is a snowball, even if you don't count like the economic harm that's coming from the straight

of horn moves being closed, commodities not being able to move out of the Middle East and everything else, right? I think it was like Dubai's real estate market is tanking because it's a playground for the rich and everyone's leaving. Yeah. So there are many, many economic impacts from a senseless war like this. Even if there was like a valid pretext, which there wasn't, war is a lot of money. And I want to go through, there's this article from Time magazine. I'll leave it down in the description for anyone else that wants to look. They tallied up essentially how much money's been spent, which we talked about on one of the previous episodes. And then they compared it to what it could have been spent on. Oh. And we got some interesting numbers in here. So in 12 days of war with Iran, we spent $12 billion. Awesome. And instead of 12 seats on the board of peace. That is 12 seats on the board of peace. Or it could have been health care for 1.3 million Americans under Medicaid. Okay. It could have been Snap Food Assistance for 5.5 million Americans.

It could have been the entire National Park Service like four different times.

It could have been Pell Grants for 1.6 million students. It could have been childcare or universal

pre-K for 900,000 children and a bunch of other stuff.

Of course. Yeah, big on a bunch of other stuff. And that stuff particularly like Medicaid and like snap and how much this could pay for it. That is so incredibly important. And we consider that this is happening after like what? The first six months of the Trump administration were spent on telling us that those things cost too much money. Those things that directly improve people's lives, in some cases directly save people's lives or or dramatically improve the quality of their lives, that's too expensive. We cannot spend that money. We need to reduce the deficit. We need to rein in government spending, only to blow it all in 12 days, 12, 14 days. I mean, we're going to get to the point where we've spent as much money as we cut from like the snap and Medicaid budget.

Like we're going to get there eventually because again, there's no end in sight for this war with Iran. And eventually we're going to get to the point where if we didn't spend all that money, we could have just funded snap and Medicaid. Just to do what? Yeah, just to do literally nothing. Just to tank the global economy, just to ruin oil, just to send everyone into a panic just to further ruin our relationships with allies, just to kill schoolgirls,

just to kill other Iranian civilians, just to replace Ayatollah Kameni with Ayatollah Kameni. Like, what are we doing? Yeah, just for the most unpopular Middle East war ever, like ever waged by the United States. Nobody actually wants this. And as we've said many times, right, this is not, this is not our like novel position, but you show me your budget. It will show you your morals, right? What you spend your money on as a government is what you care about for your population and for your impact around the world. And when our country is so eager, so willing, so unquestioning, unquestioning when we spend billions of dollars on just killing people, but suddenly when we're talking about social programs, the money bag dries up. I think that tells you a lot about what America is and what it cares about. Yeah, no, Pentagon budget goes up and up and up and like a trillion dollars right now. It's a trillion dollars now. Every year, it's like a trillion dollars that the Pentagon just has to spend yearly. And that's like just maintenance. That's just like the cost of doing business. And then when we get into just unnecessary wars, we need more supplemental funding to

refill the things that they couldn't pay for because all that trillion dollars just goes to business as usual. And we don't even know where all that money goes. No, they don't pass audits ever. The Pentagon in all of its existence has never passed an audit. Yeah. It doesn't, we don't know where any of the money is going.

I don't know.

Like, if I'm dedicating like a trillion dollars of like my country's money to the Pentagon to war every single fucking year or to the military every single fucking year, you'd think they'd be able to like handle war like with that. Like you'd think they wouldn't need more money to handle war. Other countries do it. Oh no. I'm sure they have not burned through their one trillion dollar.

No, they haven't, but we still need supplemental funding.

Like, they're still going to go and

beg Democrats. I don't even want to say bag Democrats. They're going to go tepidly ass Democrats.

They'll say, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Yes. They're going to enthusiastic,

say yes, and the others will pat them on the back behind the scenes and give them $50 billion. It's like, why do you continue to need like all that extra fucking money all the time?

I genuinely don't understand.

No, it's it's for nothing, man.

That's a lot of money that could be used elsewhere.

Welcome back to head in the office, everybody. Today we're recording on Tuesday, March 17th. Yes. And the second half of this episode will be our interview with a candidate for Congress here in Michigan, Will Lawrence. It's a pretty good one, too. I would highly suggest you stay and listen. Yeah. The interviews are good, guys. And for those of you that listen, all the way through all of our episodes, never skip

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