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Again, "it's unaffordable" is, in the context of the wealthiest country on earth, a statement of priority, not of capability.

Every time.

What is the cost of an uninhabitable planet?

Again, "it's unaffordable" is, in the context of the wealthiest country on earth, a statement of priority, not of capability.

What is the cost of accommodating disabled people? Wrong question.

Better question: What is the cost of neglecting them?

The lies we believe are *expensive* lies.

How can we afford universal healthcare? Wrong question.

Better question: how can we afford allowing profiteering off of sickness and desperation?
These lies we’re told are expensive lies.

But how can we afford debt relief? Wrong question.

Better question: how can we afford the cost of generations of highly educated people, shackled for decades to debt?
The outraged question of cost arises for every $1 spent feeding a child.

But we’ll find $100 to drug test each parent, simply to establish worthiness to access that $1

The outrage was never about cost.

It’s certainly never about hungry children.

These are *expensive* lies.
Somehow we manage to afford the profiteers but never the solution they provide at a markup.

We can afford prison profiteering, never justice

Healthcare profiteering, never healthcare

Education profiteering, never education

Energy profiteering, not a biosphere

Expensive lies
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