Cut the Bloated, Destructive Defense Budget so that People Can Eat and Have Roofs Over their Heads [View all]

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http://www.alternet.org/activism/really-it-time-cut-giant-bloated-destructive-defense-budget-so-people-can-eat-and-have



Do we want to feed hungry people, or feed the weapons industry?
This is the question at the crux of what may be the greatest moral dilemma in our national history—our bloated, destructive defense budget gobbles up our nation's funds while millions of people lack food and shelter.

Medea Bejamin of the peace and social justice advocacy group Code Pink, posed this question on behalf of a campaign launched this week that urges major cuts to wasteful military spending, as part of the December 13 federal budget resolution.

Organizations behind the campaign are calling for long overdue military reductions in order to meet dire needs at home and reinvest in the country’s future.
“It's critical to show that we, as a people, choose food, education and green energy over bombs," Benjamin said.
Grassroots community organizers along with peace advocates, human services workers, social, economic and environmental justice organizers and green energy groups teamed up to launch a sign-on letter calling for cuts of 25-50% in the trillion dollar military budget—which makes up an egregious 53% of all discretionary federal spending in the U.S. Meanwhile, almost 15 percent of the population in the U.S. is considered “food insecure," according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.