• yenahmik@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Imagine if instead of all the money spent on the Iraq war had instead been invested in green infrastructure here in the US. Doubly so if 9/11 had been prevented and Afghanistan hadn’t happened either.

    If 9/11 didn’t happen, there’s no Patriot Act, no Homeland Security Act, no ICE, etc.

    I can’t even fathom how different this country might have been without those defining events.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      During the last two years of Clinton’s presidency, we had an actual fucking budget surplus. We could have been debt-free as a nation now, instead of sitting on nearly $40 trillion owed.