Biden’s priorities: trillions for senseless wars, peanuts for migrant relief.

Biden’s priorities: trillions for senseless wars, peanuts for migrant relief.

 

US enabling and support of wars in Ukraine and Gaza have pushed US military spending well over a trillion dollars yearly. While not as horrible as the millions dead, wounded and displaced in those two devastated lands, that treasure could better be used to uplift the Homeland.

Consider the domestic migrant crisis here in Chicago. Over 20,000 have arrived in the past year on hundreds of buses courtesy of Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

 

They’re putting Chicago in both financial and political crisis. The cost this year will exceed a quarter of a billion dollars, blowing a hole in Mayor Johnson’s budget and derailing his pledge to uplift underprivileged communities.

 

They’re causing social unrest thruout the city as residents push back verbally, even physically, against local leaders they blame for the proliferation of migrant tent encampments in their neighborhoods.

 

They should blame the most war promoting American president ever, Joe Biden. He presides over an annual $858 billion dollar defense budget that swells well over a trillion with his supplemental billions for hot wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and potential wars against China, Iran and North Korea to name three.

 

A cruel irony of the migrant crisis is most are from Venezuela where over 7 million have fled the poverty greatly worsened by US sanctions designed to affect socialist regimes change. They’ve only accomplished fueling the massive US migrant crisis in Chicago and other southern border and northern cities.

 

Earlier this year Chicago Mayor Lightfoot and Governor Pritzker requested $191 million to deal with the federal generated crisis. Biden opened his pocket book and found it largely emptied for his foreign wars and militarism. He did come up with $4.3 million each for Chicago and Illinois.

Newbie Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is back to begging Biden for adequate funds only the Fed is capable of providing. He’s yet to learn the hard lesson Lightfoot did: Perpetual war talks…and migrant relief walks.