2024-07-12 21:52:59
$100 million divided equally among 35 million children would give each child less than $2.86. The national average cost for one meal in the U.S. was $3.02 in 2017 before inflation drove food costs higher. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(6-1-6) Author
2024-07-12 23:53:23
The proposed note assumes w/o basis that meals would have to be purchased at a price equivalent to the "average cost of a meal," which is "[t]he average dollar amount spent on food per week by food-secure individuals is divided by 21 (assuming 3 meals per day ...)." [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(2-0-1) Author
2024-07-12 23:54:13
While you can argue with the specifics of this post, Representative Omar's point is very clearly about our financial priorities. The exact specifics of how many children could be fed for the cost of an F-35 are not important to this argument and are pointlessly pedantic. NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(1-0-3) Author
2024-07-13 18:24:08
The cost over an F35s life time is considerably more than the price, quoted [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(0-0-1) Author