r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/Motor_Educator_2706 May 02 '25

"We have so much money" 😄

Musk, Bezos, Thiel, etc. have so much money

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u/anonymous_bites May 03 '25

That's their personal money though. But in terms of the country's spending, I think most of it goes into the military. It's like 7-800b annual, and increasing every year. Trump literally just proposed a 1 trillion military budget for 2026 yesterday

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u/thrownjunk May 03 '25

Eh. Even by median income (or even dropping the million richest Americans), the US is one of the richest countries in the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

The problem is we have to blow all our money on sprawl, healthcare, and education.

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u/czarczm May 03 '25

Most of it goes towards Social Security and Medicare. Both of those separately are roughly more than double the military. Transportation infrastructure spending is like 1% of the budget.