Cost of #War

The US clearly has its priorities backwards ..while at home we expend to bail out the banks, we refuse to provide universal health care or help the multitude of forecloses. Our school system continues to deteriorate

Our national debt continues to rise

But we always find ways to fund the senseless wars

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ost of War: Breaking It Down January 12, 2011 Cost of U.S. Wars Since 2001 $1,136,606,437,629 See the cost to your community at www.costofwar.com Monday (January 17) is the 50th anniversary of President Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address, in which he warned of the rise of a “military-industrial complex.” Martin Luther King Day is also Monday. He said: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” On Tuesday, the LA Times reported, Vice President Biden “backed away from his own recent promise that the U.S. would pull out of the country ‘come hell or high water’ by 2014.” Instead “conceding that the U.S. might retain a presence in Afghanistan when the 2014 deadline hits and beyond.” JO COMERFORD, CHRIS HELLMAN Comerford is executive director of the National Priorities Project; Hellman is budget analyst for the group, which as part of the re-launch of its website, CostofWar.com, has just issued “What’s at Stake?” — 50 state-level briefs focused on the impact of war spending. [more] Read more at www.accuracy.org

 

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Cost of #War