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Biden Is Giving $40 Billion to Ukraine - Here's What That Money Could Do Here

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$1.3 million to every public high school. It could be used to buy books and other equipment, fix broken infrastructure, build something new for the kids. $1.3 million would pay the salaries of 20 new teachers for 10 years.

$500 to each American family. I pledge to use my $500 not to kill any Russians or Ukrainians.

$420 to every cat. That's a lot of kibble and litter. Cats don't kill Russians or Ukrainians.

$2 million each to every person wrongfully convicted of a murder they didn't commit.

Give a new, fully loaded car to a million people.

Give a sweet, fully loaded Macbook Pro laptop to 10 million people.

Give a sweet new TV to 100 million people.

Everyone who currently subscribes to Netflix gets three years for free.

Every adult gets a free subscription to the Washington Post digital edition for three years.

Every adult gets 15 free tickets to the actual, real, in-person, not-at-home movies.

$40 billion would repair almost all of the 220,000 bridges in the United States that need to be repaired and replace all of the 79,500 that need to be replaced. Add the $2 billion we already sent to Ukraine and you can delete the word "almost."

$40 billion would buy Twitter.

$86,000 for everyone raped over the last year.

$7,000 to help care the caregivers of everyone suffering from dementia.

It would hire 50,000 journalists for 20 years. There are only 6,500 now.

$4,000 to every self-identified Native American and Alaska Native. It's not nearly enough considering what has been done to them, but it's better than the current nothing.

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Ted Rall, a political cartoonist, is the author of "The Anti-American Manifesto." He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1963, raised in Kettering, Ohio and graduated from Fairmont West High School in 1981. His first cartoons were published (more...)
 

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