Giving $500/month to help the life of a needy American: i sleep
Spending $100,000/day to make a non-American’s life miserable: real shit
You got the meme backwards.
I did, oops. The original (in opposite order) would be how Republican deficit hawks would think how wasteful each would be.
That’s 100K per person and per day.
Also, thank you Reuters for stepping up and covering some of this. I give you shit for being privately owned by a Canadian billionaire, but you’re probably the least biased out of all of the majors. Maybe cuz trump tried to take your country? Nevermind, I don’t care why.
OH OKAY, but my idea to replace ALL roads with high speed rail is “too expensive” and “ridiculous” and “you’ve gone over the public comment period, please stop before we have you arrested”
How are they managing to spend that much for imprisonment? Are they actual expenses or is someone pocketing most of it?
10,000% it’s govt contractors marking things up 50x
Yes of course it is a giant scam. That was the entire point. But it’s not just one person. The military industrial complex has many moving parts.
What’s an “actual” expense, anyway. Money is being spent on things and services. It’s probably not being burned in a campfire.
So? We ELIMINATED my Child’s Education and my VA BENEFITS and my SOCIAL SECURITY and the FCC and the FTC so we CAN Afford this!
at this rate Trump is going to double the deficit
That 30,000 person capacity camp they’re building there will cost 3 billion a day to run. What a nightmarish dystopian grift
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
And this is why you can’t have your social security anymore.
Guarantee you they’re waiting for enough general pushback on the financial costs so that they can suggest gas chambers as a compromise
Work camps come first, gas chambers come when the labor camps are unprofitable.
“Efficient”
Not efficient nor cost savings.
Temporary pain to own the libs, hoss
Rikers: “Those are rookie numbers”
No way Rikers Island (NYC jail) costs that much to run. Possibly if you add the cost of paying settlements.
According to this NYT article (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/nyregion/rikers-island-receiver-nyc.html), NYC is spending more than half a million dollars per inmate annually. Ex.: “there is roughly one uniformed officer for each inmate at Rikers, according to city data — an unlimited sick leave policy”
EDIT: oh shit! I just noticed that it says “daily” (!!). My bad, you’re right.
it’s important that some govt contractor gets a big piece of that money
