https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spending/categories/
Welfare is 1.6 trillion
SS is 1.1 trillion
Medicare is $796 billion together that’s
3996 billion per year or ten billion per day. So Ukraine is four days of entitlement programs don’t miss the forest for the trees.
Yup, one of my pet peeves is when they just use a raw number and don’t state or consider the percentage to the whole.
“Company X loses 1 billion”. “Oh my god, 1 billion!” But if that is 5% of cash they have on hand, its a yawner.