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Our missile strike in Syria could have fed ~25,000 hungry children for a year.
~59 missiles @ 1mil each
$200/mo for food
= 24583 children could have food reliably for an entire year.
War is the biggest waste of our wealth we have.
@blurredweasel sure, if you ignore the massive logistical problems and overhead associated with distributing food directly to 25,000 people
@blurredweasel Sure, I get the intention, I just feel like it's a bit of a disingenuous oversimplification when you say "x number of children could have had food if we hadn't launched these particular missiles."
@blurredweasel I guess what I'm trying to say is that poverty is an incredibly complex problem with much bigger roadblocks than simple allocation of funds.
@Jpot Yeah, we have existing programs related to feeding hungry children, both directly government (WIC, who's budget is limited), and well established charities all over the country (Food Banks).
Also, it's a 300 character toot, not a detailed policy plan. But every time we make a military expenditure, we're taking money from real hungry children, real homeless. Big numbers seem so abstract so I'm showing what else could have been done w/ this amount of money.