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THE US GOVERNMENT CLAIMS WE CAN'T AFFORD UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, BUT WE SPEND MONEY ON SOME REALLY WACKY STUFF. SO I WENT AND DID SOME MATH. YOU DON'T HAVE TO. JUST SIT BACK AND ENJOY THE NUMBERS. IF BY SOME MIRACLE WE DO UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, I DON'T WANT AN OVERWORKED DOC IN A BOX SHUFFLING PEOPLE THROUGH LIKE CATTLE. I WANT THE GOOD STUFF. I LOOKED AT WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS IN THE WORLD. AND I FOUND AT SWEDEN PAYS $83.6 BILLION, OR 11% OF THEIR GDP. FOR 10.6 MILLION PEOPLE TO HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, GOVERNMENT COVERS ABOUT 85 TO 86% OF EVERYONE'S HEALTHCARE COSTS. WE HAVE 10.6 MILLION PEOPLE. WE HAVE 349 MILLION. THAT'S A LOT MORE, RIGHT? SO WE HAVE CROSS MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION, RIGHT, TO FIGURE OUT THAT WE WOULD NEED ABOUT $2.8 TRILLION ANNUALLY IN ORDER TO AFFORD THE SAME HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AS SWEDEN. SURELY NOT INCLUDING THE EXAMPLES I GAVE YESTERDAY, THERE'S NO WAY OUR GOVERNMENT HAS WASTED THAT MUCH MONEY, RIGHT? THAT WE COULD DO THIS ENTIRE TIME. WELL, LET ME FLIP THIS AROUND, SPACEX $1.9B FF SUB 40 B PALANTIR 10B Venezuela 4.7B MILITARY BASES 80B BOEING JETS 131.2B "ZERO TAX" 22.1B ICE EXPANSION 1 T TOMAH HAWKS 22.9B SUBS 76.6B Med-care 83.6B Medicaid 584B / 2.8T JUST START WITH ELON MUSK'S SPACEX TAX BREAKS. MAN A 1.9 BILLION DOLLAR BREAK EVERY YEAR. WE GET $40 BILLION IN FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES EVERY YEAR. WE'VE PAID PALANTIR, THE IBM 1930 SURVEILLANCE OVERLORD PEOPLE, $10 BILLION. THAT STUNT IN VENEZUELA COST US $4.7 BILLION. OUR OVERSEAS MILITARY BASES COST ABOUT $80 BILLION A YEAR. JUST ENTERED INTO THIS NEW CONTRACT WITH BOEING OF THESE SPIDER JETS FOR $131.2 BILLION. WE WOULD SAVE MONEY JUST NOT USING THESE SPIDER JETS AT HOME. $85,000 AN HOUR NOT EVEN INCLUDING MONEY WE WOULD SAVE IF WE QUIT STUPID FLYOVERS OVER, LIKE, PANAMA CITY BEACH SPORTS EVENTS. IT COSTS US MILLION DOLLARS EVERY TIME THEY DO A SUPER BOWL FLY BY. AND TAXPAYERS PAY EVEN IF YOU'RE LIKE ME AND YOU DETEST FOOTBALL. WE HAVE WHAT TAX CORPORATIONS, OF THESE LARGE MULTINATIONAL CONGLOMERATIONS THAT PAY ZERO TAXES INTO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SO THAT'S $22.1 BILLION A YEAR THAT WE'RE NOT GETTING. WE HAVE $1 TRILLION IN IMMIGRATION SERVICES EXPANSION. THIS INCLUDES DETENTION CENTERS LIKE ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ, WHICH HAS ALREADY HAD TO CLOSE. FANCY NEW EQUIPMENT. THIS INCLUDES NEW AND THE BORDER WALL THAT THEY LAST TIME, AND THEY'RE NOT THIS TIME. WE HAD A NEW CONTRACT WITH RAYTHEON TO PROVIDE MORE TOMAHAWK MISSILES FOR THAT WAR TALKING ABOUT YESTERDAY. THIS IS NOT INCLUDED IN THAT THAT'S ANOTHER $22.9 BILLION. WE'RE ALSO BUYING NEW NUCLEAR SUBMARINES FOR $76.6 BILLION, WHICH IS DEFINITELY NEED RIGHT NOW OF PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD TO DRIVE TO THE GROCERY STORE. ADD UP ALL OF THIS IN THE $839 BILLION WE PAY FOR MEDICARE AND THE $584 BILLION WE PAY FOR MEDICAID, YOU GET $2.8 ISN'T THAT CRAZY? WE HAD THE MONEY THE WHOLE TIME. HOW ABOUT THAT? LET ME KNOW AND FOLLOW FOR MORE.