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Why would we want DoD budget going to chicago or Baltimore?

Because we spend too much on the military industrial complex and not on our own communities. We are rotting from the inside because we create generational poverty in these communities and just leave them to themselves. Occasionally when a cop kills someone there, we will remember them for a few days and then forget them in a couple of weeks.

Over 3000 people were shot in Chicago this year so far. And that’s down 20%. Did you even hear anything about that? We let these poverty-stricken neighborhoods live in violence and don’t do a goddamn thing about it. Meanwhile we feed the military industrial complex to fight wars on the other side of the world. That’s bullshit.

But chicago and Baltimore’s poor violent neighborhoods are not a federal problem. That’s a chicago and Baltimore problem. I don’t want any of my tax dollars that go to DoD going to either of those cities. I’m sure you can find ways to donate to various social programs and outreach for those places if you looked. I want to support Ukraine with our defense budget not waste it on Baltimore

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