(04-02-2022, 10:01 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(04-02-2022, 09:26 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: You can use that line about anything.  

Biden pledged an additional $300 million to Ukraine instead of to homeless vets.
Billions of dollars of student loans were forgiven recently instead of going to homeless vets.  
The city is about to spend millions upgrading TIAA Bank Field instead of spending it on homeless vets.  

See how that works?

No, we have a choice between paying for housing for illegals or housing for vets. We're spending ~$800 million on housing either way. This is a very specific decision about targets for allocated housing resources, not a broader question about allocating them. None of those dollars should go to illegals anyway but even more so if that means it doesn't go to a needy veteran.

I don't think the federal government redirects money from one thing to another as if they had limited resources.  That would be the responsible way to operate, but they don't do that.  They just borrow and spend. 

So if you think we should not be spending this money on illegal immigrants, that's fine, and if you want more money to go to homeless vets, that's fine, too, but those two things are not really connected.  Because the government does not operate as if it had limited resources and they don't operate as if money going to one place has to come from another place.

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