MONEY FOR JAM May 30, 2008
Posted by wmmbb in Peace, US Politics.add a comment
Spending on the military is supposed to make people safer. Implicitly it presupposes a rationale of fear, violence, cowardice and domination. For example, the war of terror and the military occupation of Iraq has not made Americans safer, if anything the opposite. And yet that spending is increasing with little opposition or accountability. In perhaps the classic Catch 22, the resources allocated to budgetary oversight are insufficient. The US military budget is $515 billion with an addition $200 billion spent on the Iraq occupation and $16 billion on nuclear weapons.
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