This is a great illustration. It is easy to give advice while out of the fray.
I’m surprised by the pope’s message, because he was no stranger to violence in Argentina. He led the Argentine Church during the December 2001 riots in Argentina. He is also part of the Jesuit order.
According to Wikipedia, "the founding document declared that the society was founded for “whoever desires to serve as a soldier of God,[a] to strive especially for the defense and propagation of the faith, and for the progress of souls in Christian life and doctrine”.8 Jesuits are thus sometimes referred to colloquially as “God’s soldiers”,9 “God’s marines”,10 or “the Company”.11
It seems that he would be more empathetic to the Ukrainians.
The best part of this whole argument is that actual statistics show that deficit spending was going down under President Biden’s administration until the GOP House hijacked the budget bringing U.S. credit under scrutiny as to whether we will pay our bills. The credit rating caused by their ineptitude could cost the U.S. millions in increased interest charges.
Just like deficit spending was going down under President Obama’s administration until Donald Trump got into office and blew up the budget.
The only surplus budget in the last fifty years was under a Democratic administration.
Democratic administrations start to reduce the deficit spending, and the next time a Republican administration gets power they go for tax cuts and then raid the infrastructure that was actually helping.
Back in the real world, the people I am talking about are working at least a total of 50 hours between their two jobs. Counting the other spouse, that is approximately 100 hours of actual physical work.
The pandemic really highlighted the inequality.
I can see why the multimillionaires are scrambling to keep President Biden from another term. He is actually cracking the protective barrier that prevents the very rich from paying their fair share of taxes on the profits they make on the backs of the working class.
It would go a lot further toward reducing the deficit than cutting Medicare, Social Security, SNAP, and the other things you call “entitlements” which is a misnomer.
Have you actually looked at the pie chart of government spending?
There are families that need the SNAP program to survive even with both husband and wife working more than one job. Often, they are the “essential workers” that everyone claimed to care so much about during the COVID pandemic.
The way to balance the budget is to claw back some of the billions of dollars in profit that corporate entities have enjoyed over the years while receiving “corporate welfare” that was not only unnecessary, in some instances, it was fraudulent.
This comic says it all in a nutshell. Great work!