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[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you looked at the defense budget by any chance? Have you seen the $880 billion with a big fat "B"? That's almost a trillion a year. A billion is one thousand million. A trillion is one thousand billion. The defense budget is almost one thousand billion. Do you know how imaginary this number is? And it only costs $79Billion a year(1% of the defense budget lol) to provide free education for our people so we can have a more educated society.