Reply #31: seems "utter drivel" is your default response now. [View All]

[girl gone mad]

You toss around figures like $17 million to "reduce gender based violence", as if this money (probably mostly pocketed by people sitting in Washington) will make up for the trillions spent on wars which kill women and girls, the trillions given to Wall Street to gamble on the resources women need to live, the billions in subsidies to corporations which hire women and girls for sweatshop labor in dehumanizing conditions, the trillions in bailouts to banks which continue looting the populace through foreclosure scams and predatory student loans, etc. Sprinkling some pocket change on "worthy causes" doesn't make up for pushing a relentlessly destructive neoliberal agenda on multiple fronts. Not even close.

Obama's economic and military policies have hurt women. You can stick your nose in the air and call it "drivel" since these policies haven't personally impacted you, but you can't actually alter reality for the people who have been impacted.