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We've restricted ourselves to "only" using at most 3% per year[1], which amounts to about 20% of the budget[2].

The US also produces (and trades in, and refines, and goes to war for) oil

Yeah, that's the reason we don't kill each other. /s

You don't think funding social safety nets affects the crime rate? Of course we in the US don't lack the money to fund ours, just the political will.

> Of course we in the US don't lack the money to fund ours, just the political will.

You lack both.

people in baltimore don't kill each other for fun. at least, usually not. more often, it's related to their line of work.

> it's related to their line of work.

Documentation?

Surely he means stevedores.