What we paid for Trump's parade?

[WisconIndependent]

We spent between $450.00 and $900.00 per spectator depending on whether there was 50,000 or 100,000 people at the parade depending on who was making the estimate.

 

[madman]

We spent between $450.00 and $900.00 per spectator depending on whether there was 50,000 or 100,000 people at the parade depending on who was making the estimate.

the maggots dont care.

 

[poppopfox]

What did the No Kings folks spend on their protest? Best bang for the bucks!

 

[Helix]

But we can't afford Medicaid.

 

[Hamish Howl]

We spent between $450.00 and $900.00 per spectator depending on whether there was 50,000 or 100,000 people at the parade depending on who was making the estimate.

The actual count was a little less than 10,000.

So we spent $4,500 per attendee.

Not including road repairs.

 

[Integrityrespec]

We spent between $450.00 and $900.00 per spectator depending on whether there was 50,000 or 100,000 people at the parade depending on who was making the estimate.

Aren't you going to count those who watched on TV? It was much less than you want to claim. How about I remind you how much we spent on illegal immigrants the last few years? $182 billion per year. I'd much rather have the parade.

 

[Rexedgar]

We spent between $450.00 and $900.00 per spectator depending on whether there was 50,000 or 100,000 people at the parade depending on who was making the estimate.

I saw attendance numbers in the 8-9K range, what’s the cost per capita for those numbers?

 

[Rexedgar]

Aren't you going to count those who watched on TV? It was much less than you want to claim. How about I remind you how much we spent on illegal immigrants the last few years? $182 billion per year. I'd much rather have the parade.

PERIOD!

 

[Lycanthrope]

But we can't afford Medicaid.

Loyalty to Dear Leader innoculates against all diseases.

 

[Brack]

Did DOGE approve of this parade???

 

[bongsaway]

We spent between $450.00 and $900.00 per spectator depending on whether there was 50,000 or 100,000 people at the parade depending on who was making the estimate.

This is trump and crew cutting spending.

 

[bongsaway]

What did the No Kings folks spend on their protest? Best bang for the bucks!

Ten miles worth of travel and I have a hybrid, so not much.

 

[Integrityrespec]

How can any American complain about a military parade on the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army and on Flag DAy to boot. The left needs to find a real agenda besides left wing hatred of America. The very people that fight to protect us, that fought to defend us and you leftist hate them. Scum.

 

[poppopfox]

How can any American complain about a military parade on the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army and on Flag DAy to boot. The left needs to find a real agenda besides left wing hatred of America. The very people that fight to protect us, that fought to defend us and you leftist hate them. Scum.

'Nm 72 -73. You calling me scum? What was your sacrifice? Got a disability rating or are you just one of those sunshine patriots tht Paine talked about?

 

[dmpi]

How can any American complain about a military parade on the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army and on Flag DAy to boot. The left needs to find a real agenda besides left wing hatred of America. The very people that fight to protect us, that fought to defend us and you leftist hate them. Scum.

People take the military for granted until they need them. And then there's this overwhelming assumption that the we will always prevail militarily. Winning wars doesn't just happen. People work very hard at it and some even gives their lives in the process. Veterans need an deserve respect, but also the centuries old military institution also deserves respect and appreciation.

 

[poppopfox]

People take the military for granted until they need them. And then there's this overwhelming assumption that the we will always prevail militarily. Winning wars doesn't just happen. People work very hard at it and some even gives their lives in the process. Veterans need an deserve respect, but also the centuries old military institution also deserves respect and appreciation.

The My Lai massacre (/miː laɪ/ MEE LY; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. At least 347 and up to 504 civilians, almost all women, children, and elderly men, were murdered by U.S. Army soldiers from C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade and B Company, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (Americal) Division (organized as part of Task Force Barker). Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and some soldiers mutilated and raped children as young as 12.

So this was okay with you?

 

[dmpi]

The My Lai massacre (/miː laɪ/ MEE LY; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. At least 347 and up to 504 civilians, almost all women, children, and elderly men, were murdered by U.S. Army soldiers from C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade and B Company, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (Americal) Division (organized as part of Task Force Barker). Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and some soldiers mutilated and raped children as young as 12.

So this was okay with you?

What does this have to do with anything?!

 

[Lisa]

Aren't you going to count those who watched on TV? It was much less than you want to claim. How about I remind you how much we spent on illegal immigrants the last few years? $182 billion per year. I'd much rather have the parade.

The facts prove that immigrants are a net benefit to the economy because they contribute more than they cost.

Here are some of the most widespread myths about how immigrants affect the U.S. economy, and the research that refutes them.


Myth #1: Immigrants take more from the U.S. government than they contribute


Fact: Immigrants contribute more in tax revenue than they take in government benefits


A 2017 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found immigration “has an overall positive impact on the long-run economic growth in the U.S.”


How that breaks down is important.


. Immigrants are “among the strongest fiscal and economic contributors in the U.S.,” the report found. They contribute about $1,700 per person per year. All other native-born Americans, including third generation immigrants, contribute $1,300 per year on average.
It is difficult to determine the exact cost or contribution of unauthorized immigrants because they are harder to survey, but the study suggests they likely have a more positive effect than their legal counterparts because they are, on average, younger and do not qualify for public benefits.


It’s also important to note that less-educated immigrants tend to work more than people with the same level of education born in the U.S. About half of all U.S.-born Americans with no high school diploma work, compared to about 70 percent of immigrants with the same education level, Giovanni Peri, an economics professor at the University of California, Davis, said in a recent interview with PBS NewsHour.

4 myths about how immigrants affect the U.S. economy

President Donald Trump’s characterization of immigrants, as people who are a drain public resources, is not backed by the data.

www.pbs.org

 

[poppopfox]

What does this have to do with anything?!

Did you forget what you said?

dmpi said:
People take the military for granted until they need them. And then there's this overwhelming assumption that the we will always prevail militarily. Winning wars doesn't just happen. People work very hard at it and some even gives their lives in the process. Veterans need an deserve respect, but also the centuries old military institution also deserves respect and appreciation

As a Vietnam veteran I can say that not all veterans deserve respect and neither does an institution that denies their war crimes.

 

[dmpi]

Did you forget what you said?



As a Vietnam veteran I can say that not all veterans deserve respect and neither does an institution that denies their war crimes.

US army has 250 years of military history and your focus is on a tiny negative aspect of the Vietnam war? Relevance and scale. They're important concepts if you want to grasp the bigger overall picture.

 

[ElChupacabra]

PERIOD!

In the history of EVER??!

 

[Rogue Valley]

People take the military for granted until they need them.

Not in my experience. Folks are continually thanking vets for their military service.

And I can say with a fairly great degree of certitude that US military vets are none too happy with Trump and the Republicans.

It's heartbreaking how they are destroying the VA. Come '26 and '28, vets are going to remember.

 

[poppopfox]

US army has 250 years of military history and your focus is on a tiny negative aspect of the Vietnam war? Relevance and scale. They're important concepts if you want to grasp the bigger overall picture.

My focus is on what you said. Would you like a history of the atrocities committed by the US military in the past? It's not tiny, by any means.

US War Crimes & Atrocities

 

[Pyrite]

US army has 250 years of military history and your focus is on a tiny negative aspect of the Vietnam war? Relevance and scale. They're important concepts if you want to grasp the bigger overall picture.

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That you gloss over My Lai does a disservice to the Vietnamese people and the Vietnamese victims, to the US Army, and to the American people.

 

[Fearandloathing]

US army has 250 years of military history and your focus is on a tiny negative aspect of the Vietnam war? Relevance and scale. They're important concepts if you want to grasp the bigger overall picture.

That bigger, over all picture would have to include the "Indian Wars" and "heroes" like General Custer!

Careful, it's not easy to sanitize the American military. Hollywood has made American believe they were the only country in WW2. But there is a long, long history of naughty behavior