My defense budget
| By levinson.eric - Feb 14th, 2006 at 11:38 am EST |
"In 1998, the United Nations Development Program estimated that it would cost an additional $9 billion (above current expenditures) to provide clean water and sanitation for everyone on earth. It would cost an additional $12 billion, they said, to cover reproductive health services for all women worldwode. Another $13 billion would be enough not only to give every person on earth enough foot to eat but also basic health care. An additional $6 billion could provide basic education for all . . . Combined they add up to $40 billion."
John Robbins The Food Revolution
Instead of loading up our big guns and literally beating our agenda into the rest of the world, what if we took our defense budget and used it for actually promoting well-being around the globe?
Would anti-Americans have so much to complain about if we were spending our own money to build clean water systems, develop infrastructure for feeding starving populations and providing basic healthcare?
It's not even a question of "where does the money come from?" since we have more than enough of it for jet fighters and nuclear bombs; the question is will you stand up and tell our government "enough is enough!" It is time to stand up and SHOW the world our wealth CAN be used for good!
Call your Senators TODAY and demand that they deny Rumsfeld his half-trillion dollar death and destruction war-chest; demand that we spend just $100 billion fighting poverty and despair without "Economic Hitmen."
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If so, what world do you live in?
Would anti-Americans have so much to complain
about if we were spending our own money to build
clean water systems, develop infrastructure for
feeding starving populations and providing basic
healthcare?
President Reagan said "The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern." Address to the National Alliance of Business, October 5, 1981
Another quote by him..
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
try this one...
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
How about this one....
"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
Trust me, digging a well and helping someone grow food will not stop certain people from wanting to kill us. That includes you.
Wake up and look at the real world!!!!!
Are you ACTUALLY talking to your own self,now???what "WORLD" are you living in,fearful one?
sad,sad.