To date, the USSA has sent about $76 billion to Ukraine to fund the Russia-Ukraine War. Total funding requested is about $135 billion. (Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies)
While funding for the Lahaina victims is hard to pin down exactly, the Biden administration has pledged $95 million to help Maui recover.
As for the late lamented East Palestine (remember them?), EPA is leading the cleanup and Norfolk Southern has a roughly $8 million commitment to the area.
But East Palestine is well down the memory hole, and every effort appears to be being made to disappear Lahaina, with additional incentives to do so, given the valuable land grab property available there. Meanwhile, the Ukraine narrative still has a strong beat to it, and it appears it will for some time to come.
Something is wrong with a system that distributes its assets in such a maner. If nothing else convinces you that our government is corrupt beyond redemption, surely this disparity alone should do so.
Not only are we not taking care of our own, but our floodgate immigration policies appear designed to make “our own” a completely different demographic. And speaking of funding, estimates of the existing burden caused by illegals range as high as $180 billion a year for those currently in the US, though precise numbers are even more difficult to come by in this particular arena.
The long and the short of it is that we are experiencing a fundamental restructuring of our nation’s population which, coupled with a faltering economy, must almost surely lead to the death of our constitutional republic if we do not become far more actively involved in restoration of our core values. It is up to each of us individually to determine the fate of our nation. And soon.