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"A 10 percent cut in spending on military contractors would provide enough money to hire 395,000 elementary school teachers or provide health insurance for 13 million children," Lindsay Koshgarian of the National Priorities Project observed.
"A 10 percent cut in spending on military contractors would provide enough money to hire 395,000 elementary school teachers or provide health insurance for 13 million children," Lindsay Koshgarian of the National Priorities Project observed.
"Congress appropriates more for U.S. military spending than the next eight countries combined, but year-after-year refuses to adequately invest in access to quality education and healthcare for millions of Americans, infrastructure spending, and alternative energy," Paul Kawika Martin, senior director for policy and political affairs at Peace Action, said in a statement late Monday.Highlighting America's uniquely exorbitant military spending in a blog post on Tuesday, Lindsay Koshgarian of National Priorities noted that it is particularly important to keep in mind who funds U.S.-led endless wars overseas following President Donald Trump's illegal attack on Syria - an attack that "added nearly $5 billion to missile-makers' stock value."
"As a result, arms industry executives make out like bandits while programs that provide essential services for most Americans remain drastically underfunded, as do development and diplomacy programs that help end wars and prevent them in the first place," Martin added.
"It's devastating to know who paid for it: we did," Koshgarian observed.
Comment: The double negative: Insufficient funding for the survival of the population the well-funded war is supposed to protect.