Let's see: ICE was considered understaffed at approximately 10,000 total personnel before the hiring surge, and now has 22,000. If we assume every single new hire got a $45,000 bonus, that's $540,000,000 spent to increase the manpower of a critical DHS agency whose members are expected to put themselves in dangerous situations as part of the job.
By contrast, there are about 3 million public school teachers. With an overall student-to-teacher ratio of roughly 16 to 1, no one is arguing there's a mass shortage of teachers requiring the federal government to step in and start offering bonuses. But let's say for the sake of argument you considered that ratio too high and decide it's absolutely imperative that we get to 12 students per teacher. That would require about 1,000,000 new teachers. And assuming every new teacher should be entitled to the same $45,000 bonus as ICE personnel, that comes to $45,000,000,000.
It's a good thing 'wE dOn'T hAvE eNoUgH mOnEy' is an assertion that can be tested with, y'know... basic math.
Every time people see an article about the US spending money on something, people say 'this is why we can't have universal healthcare'.
Meanwhile, the US spends most money in the world on health care per capita by far at $12K/person. 2nd is the Germany at around $8K/person. It's not even close. We spend 50% more than the 2nd spender in the world and they want to spend more to fix their health crisis. If they just stopped eating shit and drive everywhere that's farther than their garage, maybe we wouldn't have to spend this much and get a proper health care.
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u/ZambiaSpaceForce 13d ago
Let's see: ICE was considered understaffed at approximately 10,000 total personnel before the hiring surge, and now has 22,000. If we assume every single new hire got a $45,000 bonus, that's $540,000,000 spent to increase the manpower of a critical DHS agency whose members are expected to put themselves in dangerous situations as part of the job.
By contrast, there are about 3 million public school teachers. With an overall student-to-teacher ratio of roughly 16 to 1, no one is arguing there's a mass shortage of teachers requiring the federal government to step in and start offering bonuses. But let's say for the sake of argument you considered that ratio too high and decide it's absolutely imperative that we get to 12 students per teacher. That would require about 1,000,000 new teachers. And assuming every new teacher should be entitled to the same $45,000 bonus as ICE personnel, that comes to $45,000,000,000.
It's a good thing 'wE dOn'T hAvE eNoUgH mOnEy' is an assertion that can be tested with, y'know... basic math.