Adieu Accord de Paris

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(06-02-2017, 09:29 AM)Au165 Wrote: It's $400 million a year, we spent around $70 million on one attack on a Syrian compound a few months ago. It was estimated in 2014 we wasted $125 billion in government spending. It is a total non starter to act as if $400 million a year (literally a couple dollars a year per tax paying person in the U.S) is a big deal in the grand scheme of being a leader of the one thing the entire world has agreed on in recent history.

So because they already waste money on things I don't agree with, I should get on board wasting money on MORE things? You look at the government wasting money and say "why not waste more giving it away?" while I look at it and say "how about we stop wasting it at all?"

Instead we keep that $400m a year, say "F you Syria" and go home, saving that money, and then start finding out where that government waste spending is and cutting that back too.

Then we can use that money to reduce our country's debt, rebuild crumbling infrastructure, and lower our taxes while reducing our emissions anyway, because we like clean air and water.

That sounds way better than giving random countries our tax dollars. Let alone giving them our tax dollars for something they might not even follow through on, because it's nonbinding. Guess what... if you give $200m to Haiti, that shit is gone. It's not going to actually help the environment. It is going in people's pockets. Take a look over there and see how the reconstruction of people's homes has gone after the earthquake of *2010*. Yet billions upon billions were sent to the country.