BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP APRIL 13 - APRIL 19, 2018 19
THE COST OF WAR
& INCOME INEQUALITY
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every
rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from
those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold
and are not clothed…. The cost of one modern heavy
bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30
cities…. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals….We pay
for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of
wheat….We pay for a single destroyer with new homes
that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
Early this February, the Republican-controlled Congress
passed and President Donald Trump signed new federal
budget legislation that increased U.S. military spending
by $165 billion over the next two years. Remarkably,
though, a Gallup public opinion poll, conducted only
days before, found only 33 percent of Americans in favor
of increasing U.S. military spending, while 65 percent
opposed it. Lawrence Wittner
Every hour, taxpayers in the United States are paying
$8.36 million for Total Cost of Wars Since 2001.
Every hour, taxpayers in the United States are paying
$2.19 million for nuclear weapons.
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