alt Hacker News> When I read we spent $1B, I think about how I'm responsible for $3 of that.
I like to think about how providing 4-week paid parental leave would cost $2 billion annually and actually help US families. Meanwhile we have spent over $100 billion on this war.
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Considering the push for reproduction from this admin and his technocrats, I'm curious if they would consider something like this.
California already more or less provides 8 weeks of paid parental leave (PFL program).
So far….
The cost of not having this war could have been 8 trillion and countless lives, or some arbitrarily huge number. Many of the actions taken this year are directly intended to curb the possible events that could lead to World War 3. Iran is directly connected to all of that.
Seems like money well spent.
My back of napkin figures gave me about $20-40b. I'm curious how you got to the $2 billion number?