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by BoorishBears 2023 days ago
I think the real irony here is that the best rebuttal to your point is the exact comment that you replied to.

The amount in question is less than 0.0011%. Literally a thousandth of a precent.

Meanwhile the result was keeping hundreds of millions afloat of Americans (at least until we decided to abandon them again for the sake of politics)

Besides, since when is a leaner government protection against an incompetent government? We're literally watching thousands of Americans die as proof this theory of "the less my government does the less it can do wrong" is completely nonsensical