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They definitely wouldn’t be able to name the last pre-Benghazi embassy staff to die in the line of duty.

Meanwhile we’re giving a pile of money to the world’s biggest hedge fund so they can expand their HQ.

“Where did the other $244B go?”

Remember, the NHS has been functioning under Conservative rule since 2010, which would certainly have a damaging effect on performance and wait times.

“The reason why England and Canada can afford it is because they put their citizens first (and in turn citizens put their country first).”

The Social Security figure likely includes disability payments for people who aren’t retired but who can’t work because of... disability.

“Hilary has been doing it for decades.”

“The real problem is that cutting spending has become a Republican thing, just like climate change has become a Democrat thing.”

Don’t forget cutting the entitlement known as the mortgage interest deduction.

That would be more persuasive if many countries of a wide variety of situations didn’t manage it. Yet somehow, the US, with a larger population but also a larger GDP, cannot?

“Liberal idiots who just think becoming a socialist nation works, ask Venezuela how that ended up for them.”

“In the US most people get treated in a timely manner while some never get treatment”

“Look up any Alan Greenspan interview from the last year or two, and he says dealing with entitlements is the biggest issue of our economy, more so than even monetary policy”

“Socialism works perfectly until you run out of other peoples money.”

Nah, that would be the Republicans who cut funding for State department security.

“Those folks who work in those programs earn less money for providing services in those countries”

“will lower costs”

That’s the NHS. That’s only one of many kinds of national healthcare, but it’s the only one wingnuts have heard of.

You know Trump wants a bigger Navy, right?

“Then they will ask you where all that Clinton Foundation money went.”