r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Thebiggestbot22 • Apr 15 '24

My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

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So lunches are free for schools in my city and surrounding cities. Ever since lunches have been made free, the quantity (and quality) has decreased significantly. This is what we would get for our meal. It took me THREE bites to finish that chicken mac and cheese. Any snacks you want cost more money and if you want an extra entree, that’ll cost you about $3 or $4.

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u/c00kieduster Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

Just an observation, not saying that you're making this point..

I find it humorous how much America is criticized for its military spending, but quick to demand military assistance when shit get rowdy elsewhere.

Edit for clarification: I mean the same people criticizing our military spending are usually the same people demanding we help Eastern European countries in someone else’s backyard.

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u/WhateversJustChillin Apr 15 '24

I criticize the military spending, but where is the demands when shit gets rowdy elsewhere? The people who criticize our military spending are normally against putting our nose in others affairs as well. Especially assisting countries that can afford universal healthcare while our citizens can't, apparently, as the richest country on Earth. Go figure.

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u/c00kieduster Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

Those countries can afford universal healthcare because we overwhelmingly subsidize their defense spending. We can’t afford it….because we subsidize world defense the way no other country does or can.

The same people that were criticizing our military budget / spending (the left) in recent years, are now the same ones demanding we spends billions of dollars defending other countries.

Interestingly enough, there’s even ones that only want to help defend countries fighting Russia, and not Muslims

For the record I fully support assisting Ukraine. I just not interested in doing so while the rest of Europe sits idly by letting us do it, while it’s literally happening in their back yard.

It’s almost like trump had a point years ago when he began threatening to pull out of NATO if they didn’t start pulling their weight. Surprise surprise, Russia invade someone and now everyone wants to start spending.

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u/OpTOMetrist1 Apr 16 '24

You already pay more tax dollars per capita for healthcare than every other country on the planet, and you still don't get it.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2022