3 Charts to Stop Military Madness: Starving Granny for Pointless Wars that Americans Don't Want -

[grahamhgreen]

Americans want the budget cut by this much (below), if you don't, you are not only far to the right of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, you're to the right of the entire country!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/07/everything-chuck-hagel-needs-to-know-about-the-defense-budget-in-charts/


CUT THE MILITARY BUDGET!

[patrice]

1. K&R !

[OceanEcosystem]

2. Interesting that Democrats want larger budget cuts than the Republicans

According to the survey.

[Scuba]

5. Why? What would you expect?

[grahamhgreen]

8. Larger MILITARY budget cuts. The problem is that military expenditures have little benefit,

once you build an aircraft carrier it keeps costing you money, it does not generate income.

However, if you spend these monies on infrastructure such as wind farms, they generate income and jobs far into the future.

[GiveMeFreedom]

14. Little benefit, depends.

once you build an aircraft carrier it keeps costing you money, it does not generate income

Not for you or I, per say, but the Bush's did quite well with "their" aircraft carriers. They made a lot of 1%'er richer than they have ever been, by using "their" military to support corporate interests overseas. Peace.

BUSH CRIME FAMILY: Playing with their toys.


from:http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-05-07-bush-landing_x.htm


from:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/may/02/usa.iraq2



from:http://www.public.navy.mil/airfor/cvn77/Pages/Namesake_Visit_Photos.aspx

[grahamhgreen]

15. Well played!

[redqueen]

3. K&R

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. Why are you trying to distract us from Seth Macfarlane's boobs joke?

[progressoid]

6. Rec.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

7. All Americans? "Starving Granny for Pointless Wars" seems to be EXACTLY what some politicians want.

During LBJ's time, the choice was succinctly described as "guns or butter."

The clear implication was that choices have to be made and that you can't have both.

That is still true.

[Initech]

9. Cut the military budget by 2/3. Tax religion. Tax the billionaires. End subsidies.

Budget balanced.

[grahamhgreen]

11. Agreed! It ain't rocket science.

[Initech]

12. Hey I've only had basic accounting and I know this!

[LeftInTX]

10. During Vietnam war and weapons were about 40% of military budget.

Today its 60% of the military budget.

Where is the outrage???

[grahamhgreen]

13. Notice how little "personal pay and housing" for the troops has gone up, compared

to expenditures from which the war profiteers skim their billions.

[johnnyreb]

16. This is what it's ALL about.

Culture, poetry, prosperity, health, life, progress... or the 1% and their planet-busting toys.

Occupied Washington DC (2010)
A photo essay on militarism in our nation's capital (MIC ads plastered all over DC subway walls):