[throwaw12]

2 weeks of meal for every school kid in the US!

Can you imagine the scale of this number?

3 days of war vs 2 week of meal for every school kid

Now do the math for Afghan war, probably US could have easily cancelled 70% of loan for every college grad, or could've been built large rail network

[hedora]

The Sentinel ICBM project (already at 2x initial budget, and set to balloon further) will be the most expensive project since the interstate freeway system was built.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/the-air-forces-new-icb...

So, an all-city high-speed rail network would certainly be achievable for a small fraction of the total US military budget.

[ikrenji]

well yeah. the pentagon wastes 1 trilly per year. a lot of stuff can be paid for with that kind of money.

[cogman10]

Like Medicare, Medicaid, and social security.

The fact that all three are looking at cuts and reductions while this war is fully funded is the major problem with America.

[JKCalhoun]

That is the thing that is the most disappointing—that we could have had it so much better.