The United States:
No high-speed trains.
No universal health care.
No viable Covid relief program.
No respite from 8.3 percent inflation. No infrastructure programs to repair decaying roads and bridges, which require $41.8 billion to fix the 43,586 structurally deficient bridges, on average 68 years old.
No forgiveness of $1.7 trillion in student debt.
No addressing income inequality.
No program to feed the 17 million children who go to bed each night hungry.
No rational gun control or curbing of the epidemic of violence and mass shootings.
No help for the 100,000 Americans who die each year of drug overdoses.
No minimum wage of $15 an hour to counter 44 years of wage stagnation.
No respite from high gas prices.
U.S. debt is $30 trillion, $6 trillion more than the U.S. GDP of $24 trillion. Servicing this debt costs $300 billion a year.
US militaryspending will be $813 billion for fiscal year 2023, more than the next nine countries, including China and Russia, combined.
$40 billion allocated for Ukraine.
Pandemics and the climate emergency are underfunded. The proposed budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in fiscal year 2023 is $10.675 billion and the proposed budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is $11.881 billion.
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