Half of the US family has less than $500 in the bank. A large portion of people spent less than $10 per day on food. That's an absurd stand to argue that people can afford to go hungry for 7 straight days just so the military get some headsets.
I'm not into heavy politics. But if you want to argue about job creation, I can bet that spending the above money on infrastructure (like last mile fiber internet) will create multiple magnitudes more jobs/opportunities for the economy than this.
Exactly! There are around 155m people working. Half of them pays $0 in tax. That means ~77m people who pay positive tax now has to pay for that $22b contract. That $70 now has become $285. The math looks even worse.
The idea that some unjustified spending is OK just because it's "cheap" per capital is an absurd idea.
