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In addition to casualties, losses in the first 12 days of the war were reported to have reached $16.5 billion. Leigh McGowan, guest commentator cnn newsnightrecently pointed out why spending billions of taxpayer dollars on overseas wars is problematic. You can watch the full clip here:
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“You’re saying 46 Americans are dead so we should attack this country because they are a terrorist organization and we need to come and capture them,” McGowan told another commentator.
“I can tell you from home that 68,000 Americans die every year because they don’t have health insurance.”
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According to a study by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “as many as 44,789 working-age Americans die each year because of a lack of health insurance.”
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“So if we’re going to spend billions of dollars on something, doesn’t it make more sense to spend it on saving American lives, on health care, than on bombing another country overseas?”
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More than 1.5 million viewers watched the video, with many netizens strongly agreeing with McGowan’s comments:
“We spend a billion dollars a day killing other people when we could be using it to save our own people,” the person agreed.
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“This only makes sense if ‘America First’ is an actual thing and not just a nice slogan!” said another.
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