Should We Reallocate The US Military Budget?

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So you know how I gave the current administration the benefit of the doubt and estimated a $704-708 billion budget this year? Shortly after I finished this episode the actual budget request was released$753 billion More than Trump's budget Just goes to show that the US, no matter which party is in power, will always spend more and more absurd sums on the military I think most of us would prefer universal healthcare, but hey, Boeing and Raytheon need to make a nice profit, right? brbrIf you enjoyed this video, please consider becoming a patron! It really does help keep my channel running, and you get early access to every new video! We also have a patrons-only Discord server! patreoncom/secondthought or if you prefer a one-time donation: buymeacoffeecom/secondthought
Comment from : Second Thought

Double it
Comment from : K And D

George Bush killed 16 million in a single warbrbrThe corporate-backed Hitler and Mussolini together killed 100 million innocents in WW2 to protect their precious Private Property and to stop the "evil commies" from "taking other people's stuff"brbrCommunism's detractors kill more people than they accuse Communism of killing
Comment from : Anti-Parasite 2023

yes please You people bomb everything This is no firecracker, Joe
Comment from : XplosionNo1

“The US government allocates nearly 1 trillion dollars on it’s military year over year, but you can kiss my ass if you think any of that is gonna go to the actual troops!”brbr- A quote that sounds like it should be a seanzoz loading screen, but is actually true!
Comment from : Lady Alicent

Yes, is that even a question, yes dismantle out military it’s nearly $1 dollars, it blows my mind how people don’t want to pay for someone to improve theirselves with higher education or cheese for a poor person but they have no problem with their taxes buying a fighter jet to murder innocent people over seas “just to keep us safe” that’s a cowardly act by the way Worse training these soldiers to fight kill and torture is free but when becoming a doctor to save people’s lives cost over half a million dollars
Comment from : Luke Guastaferro

0:13 -
Comment from : BoboFrmBroward

WOW!
Comment from : Joy Frimpong

People just like us? People who fly planes into buildings? People who strap bombs to themselves and run into buildings to blow them up? People who use little kids as soldiers and weapon holders? Yeah just like us I'd rather have cheap gas over some religious militant not getting shot
Comment from : Laray Crenshaw

Healthcare for all?! KAH-MOO-NISM!
Comment from : GabrielHellborne

I'm just wondering how the numbers look if you get rid of all the instances of US companies stealing resources by force and that kind of thing Is there still enough money to become socialist?
Comment from : TRD Chris

If i get cancer I'll probably kill myself or get euthanasia because no way in hell am i putting my family in millions of dollars in debt because of the US spending hundreds of billions of dollars on there military and not bothering to use it on fixing problems that plagues the country to this day
Comment from : the end

AMERICA, ARE YOU LISTENING????
Comment from : Ritchie Smith

Your best video yet Commenting for the algorithm so that (hopefully) more people will see this
Comment from : Joel Davis

One thing about homelessness is that drugs are in abundance, so until that is addressed I feel there will continue to be homelessness This is a spiritual problem, not one that you can just throw money atbrbrBut I do agree we spend way too much on military and way too little on things like health, education, and just trying to improve our own society
Comment from : Victoria Ryan

If only all of that money were spent on, I don't know, ending homelessness?
Comment from : The RPG Lynx

800 biilion on diplomacy and the peace corp would create more to produce progress and stability than our MIC and deep state currently only waste to ensure the opposite Wed probably have cure for cancer, bases on mars, and technologies undreamed of by now if we had taken the higher road after WW2
Comment from : Zack Barkley

The book of Daniel foretold that during the end times, there would be competing world powers that would struggle for world dominance That military struggle would involve spending vast “treasures,” or financial resources—Daniel 11:40, 42, 43
Comment from : jamama3

I agree with many of your points I would say almost all of your points Except for the simple fact that if the United States is not going to police the world some other economic power willbrbrChina has been working it's way into global dominance for a very long time and they would not stop if they had no adversary
Comment from : Joshua J Gauthier

Like 800 billion in early 2023 330M citizens $2,425 for every man, woman and child per year How much is your family spending per year for US DoD? If you saved up for ten years, you and your friends could buy an astonishing amount of weapons Put another way, Could you protect yourself and your family with $2600 per year?
Comment from : Art Bender

Double military spending
Comment from : Whispering Forest

Homelessness - 20 billion // one-time payment brbrUniversal Healthcare - 150 billion increase to Healthcare Budget brbr2022 - 887 b In Military spending brbrBy doing these 2 things it would bring the Military spending to little more than 600 billion brbrThat is still more than double what the closest country military spending is (China) The US would still have the best (arguably so) military with this budget surely
Comment from : Chronic Gainz

Matatan🤔 Ribirin HS,brExcellent videos well done,
Comment from : Henry Santos

They could use all the spending to fund a national health service Eradicating homelessness is never possible and is a communist wet dream
Comment from : Portman

no
Comment from : commando ror2

The politicians use the military to make money
Comment from : Monolith

2023
Comment from : luis duron

The reason there are no social solutions to help citizens is because the rich have given the poor the self-defeating idea that social concepts that benefit everyone are a very, very bad Look at how much the people have resisted affordable health care
Comment from : Novel Martinez

Your healthcare costs seems to be off Federal subsidies more than double in those projections, far outweighing the rest of the costs
Comment from : Caden VanValkenburg

They should but they want
Comment from : Jimmie Ward

It's sad that only 20 billion would solve homelessness and we still won't do that
Comment from : Definitely not a crab

This is exactly why I am leaving this country This will never change here and I am sick of it!
Comment from : Scott Garey

This is one of the most important videos on Youtube
Comment from : BigPlanDan

The war in Ukraine basically obliterated any future prospect of the US relocating its budgetbrbrThanks Putin
Comment from : Andrew Rogers

more and more homeless people in the US, and that tax money, Go Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Comment from : KHOIRUL ANAM

It would be nice if we had a normal military budget for a change
Comment from : Momurdamo

Just a couple minutes into this video and I want to throw up
Comment from : Kelly Ray

I hate how aggressive police and soldiers are
Comment from : Tedy Hawed

KILLING PEOPLE IS A CAREER NOW
Comment from : Tedy Hawed

I love how this touches on the how ending homelessness / healthcare / etc make financial sense It's annoying how often folks argue that 'we can't afford to fix X,' when doing so is much more cost effective than ignoring the problem
Comment from : rhuiah

If anything, we need to reallocate all other spending TO THE MILITARY, and not the other way around, because the Military is more important than poor people, children, disabled people, elderly people, the environment, and marginalized civilians COMBINED!
Comment from : Glen B

Short answer: Yes
Comment from : xXNP4CNuclearXx

Yes
Comment from : King Protea

Yes, please do stop playing world police it would be so nice to live in a world where the US military isn't terrorizing people anymore blowing stuff up, intimidating everyone with drones and nuclear cabapility, causing fear, misery and chaos in civilian populations in the persuit of US political interests - terrorism brJust because someone said "I have the right to, and am allowed to do this thing that I would consider illegal if someone did it to me, but because I have given myself the legal right to do it to others, it isn't a crime when I do it!" doesn't mean they aren't a criminal
Comment from : Lars Larsen

Tl;dr: yes
Comment from : VaderTrap

I hind sight this aged like milk
Comment from : Lucas Bussard

I would like to add that when you travel to many places if the people from where ever think you're American, they treat you awful The world HATES AMERICA and America seems to have zero ideas about that
Comment from : M R

Thank you 💟
Comment from : brn2579

come on f35s are pretty cool
Comment from : Tvz42

Cancel all of itbrGive it to the American peoplebrWe did the math one time, every American would get a check for $2,000 every month for the rest of your life What would you do with your $2,000 checks for life?
Comment from : choppergirl (♞) airwar

How about unite as one humans budjet
Comment from : joie

"There is nothing new about poverty What is new is that we now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty It's just a questions of whether we have the will" -MLK
Comment from : Michael Santangelo

Military and cops are thugs in uniform
Comment from : Michael Santangelo

😢 💭 br As a🇺🇸VET, that $800BN military budget would’ve cost about💲500BN…br 🇺🇸Military usually overspending on something that could’ve cost <50+share some of the budgets among the high ranking officials…br It’s more complicated than that but, me, I’m speculating without facts based what I’ve heard…
Comment from : U2-TV

Short awnser yesbrLong awnser oh hell yes
Comment from : just a gay commie

I love your videos I like this one, too I just have a problem with the $20B figure to end homelessness forever It feels rather unsubstantiated I did a little bit of looking into it and I don't think it would cost any less than $30B per year to end homelessness I still believe we should invest $50B into it every year at the detriment of the military budget, and agree with your argument overall
Comment from : Lemur

Slash it to zero They haven't saved up a dime by now When they should have trillions in the bank Slash it to zero Slash the US military budget to zerobrbrA lot of Americans, many times, have had their income slashed to zero, and had to figure out how to survive for years or in my case decades
Comment from : choppergirl (♞) airwar

and I just need 5k dollars to solve my life - if anyone wants to help me - there's a donation link in my profile description - 5 dollars would help a lot
Comment from : Anna

Aren’t Army contractors more expensive than nominal soldiers
Comment from : Calisthenics boy

All healthcare should be free except cosmetics like plastic surgery
Comment from : Calisthenics boy

Interesting video May I please have the source of the research that estimates the cost of resolving the US housing crisis
Comment from : kundai ngona

I actually agree to cutting back on spending for militarybrbrCollege and healthcare and new roads and bridges are better like what trump said brbrWhy should we spend a Trillion dollars on a fighter jet ? wasteful brbrhave u seen the cost of a new nuclear submarine ? 1 billion per vessel we have 60 of them get real dudes brbrThe aircraft carriers are even worse during Reagen it was cheaper to better brbror why does the army spend 25,000 on toilet plungers I mean come on are we really gonna believe that lol 😂
Comment from : Unsc home fleet

I'm 15, I can't wait until I'm able to move to nz canada or Ireland I have 3 because they are equally good and things can change in 5 years
Comment from : Connor 🇳🇿

The fact that the US spends more than the next 10 combined should tell people enough You guys could half military spending and still come out on topbrbrEdit: eyy! you said it too nicebrbrEdit 2: So I tried accessing the source that explains how you could end homelessness with a one time investment because I find that rather hard to believe, but I can't seem to access it Do you have an alternative link to that? Or would you mind explaining how that works in a video?
Comment from : Skillus Eclasius II

I respect the people who serve in the military but yeah, the budget is ridiculous The amount of funding spent on projects since the end of WW2 that were never finished is a ridiculous waste by itself
Comment from : Scott Descheneau

The unfortunate thing is that the reason that a lot of developed nations like Canada can afford to have low military spending is thanks to the United States The US defends much of the developed world with its absurd spending The only developed countries that don't rely on the US for large portions of their defense are very few As an example, 11 out of 14 NATO aircraft carriers belong to the United States despite the US only being about a third of NATO's population, and the other 3 are held by two countries; Britain and France
Comment from : Ted Lee

Foreign invasions with the military to boost the economy, hmmm I don't knowthis sounds like a pretty keep component of the praxis offascism?
Comment from : ☭Comrade Natalie☭

Completely misleading brFew points to make br1) US military budget is only high in dollar value, its not high in purchasing power Purchasing power wise, China outspends US in this regardbrFor example both Germany and France have equal military budget, but anyone who think that German military is as good as France is borderline retardedbr2) Now that we understood what 'purchasing power' is , there is another thing called per capita spending Why does that matter? Because if you look at recent war such as Ukraine or Afghanistan or otherBig nations such as US , Russia, etc don't do 100 mobilization to take down enemy br3) According to estimates it would take 20 billion dollar to end homelessUS spends twice that each year giving checks to lardlord companies such as Redfin and remaaxWithout actually focusing on public housing And I don't even have to go over the healthcare budgetbr4) A good metric is percentage of GDP In that regards, most nations in West spend much less on their military than their non-Western counterparts
Comment from : Firon Firon

The biggest obstacle to solving homelessness isn’t the cost it’s the lack of the political will to do so🤮
Comment from : Scott Peterson

This just the right thing to do
Comment from : kayitare gisa patrick

What if you the military in half and you are wrong
Comment from : Angelo Icaro

11:00
Comment from : Carter Scott

I'm a bit curious I've seen people quote lots of different figures about how much universal healthcare would cost, with some of the higher numbers being as much as $3 trillion a year Where are they getting these numbers from? If the CBO analysis is so comprehensive why isn't it used as a silver bullet to the healthcare debate? I feel like there's more to the issue than is being told here
Comment from : I before A except after K

Y'all really got proven wrong on that one lol
Comment from : Viknesh Visva

Just not a good idea yet with all this greed would it matter?
Comment from : Israel Grace

Over funded
Comment from : ANDREW E JESSE

My biggest issue with military spending is that aside from the obvious is that vets are struggling from mental health and other possible issues and that much money should also be spent on them not just new weapons
Comment from : VictorsRandomVideos !

The us has enough money even if they spend 1 trillion on defense for good healthcare education etc but the problem is corporations rule the country that would reduce their revenues
Comment from : Abdus Samet Filiz

I live in Belgium we had our second baby recently i just paid 150 euro for a big room with a jacuzzi in it 😃 that whas the only cost the insurance didnt pay , the costs in total where 2500 euro everything paid by the mandatory state insurance wich just costs 20 euro in a month
Comment from : Abdus Samet Filiz

I don’t think the budget should be decreased they just need to do more with the money We spent $4 trillion winning WW2 and somehow spend $2 trillion losing a war against terrorists
Comment from : Tater

You can't end homelessness with one time investment of $20b That's $20b per year It's mentioned in your own sources at the end of that NYT article in the description
Comment from : Basim Aftab

Hell no
Comment from : Colton Hall

Will the Patreon donations actually go towards funding political action?
Comment from : Universal Humanity Project

Middle east: just existbrUS: attacks middle eastbrRussia: invades ukrainebrUS: doesn't attack Russia/defend Ukraine
Comment from : DuDono

Hmm Well now we know what happens when America goes soft globally You gonna do a remake?
Comment from : Peter Griffen

The problem I have with US military spending is that while I am a leftist who on principle opposes militarism (thought with many exceptions sadly), I live in Poland and money US spends on defence are money that directly keep me safe brbrSo I hope US will keep its gigantic defence budget United States (and EU/NATO help) are the only thing that could stop Russian invasion from taking independence from my country
Comment from : Erika Itsumi

It's also worth noting that around 15 of our hard-earned tax dollars go towards military/defense infrastructure used to invade nations we label as lacking "freedom" No wonder we get nothing out of our taxes even in states with high taxation rates (which leads to right-wing populists and other Republicans complaining about being taxed too much)
Comment from : Jack Hellesoe

United nations should work harder to tackle defence industries of the world because defence industries are waste industries without a full circle of benefits for mankindbrbrA defence industries reduction body must be created to curb defence industries ambitions
Comment from : kly touch

yes, it's not a matter of should we but where should we put that money
Comment from : DownwindFish

The fact of the matter is, if we cut military spending the economy would crumble Nearly HALF of the US population works for the military
Comment from : BusterLimes

The first few seconds "to the rest of the world the US Is known for a few things"brbrInstant mental picture of an Abbrams with Micky mouses face plastered on the front firing a cheeseburger from the main cannon to the sound of an eagle cry
Comment from : Pale Penguin