War in the east...war in the west...war up north...war down south"

[SHRED]

~ Bob Marley

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U.S. War Spending Now Exceeds That Of All States
by Sherwood Ross,
December 24, 2009 - 9:42am

The U.S. spends more for war annually than all state governments combined spend for the health, education, welfare, and safety of 308 million Americans.

Joseph Henchman, director of state projects for the Tax Foundation of Washington, D.C., says the states collected a total of $781 billion in taxes in 2008.

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Chalmers goes on to say the U.S. military establishment today is “close to being beyond civilian control” and that despite its ability to “deliver death and destruction to any target on earth and expect little in the way of retaliation” it demands more and newer equipment “while the Pentagon now more or less sets its own agenda” and “monopolizes the formulation and conduct of American foreign policy.”

How long will it be before this tyrannical, anti-democratic, colossus that is sucking up as much money for war as all states, counties and cities spend on peace---and which straddles the globe, boosts dictators, and beats the war drums---turns on its own people?

MORE:
http://www.antemedius.com/content/us-war-spending-now-exceeds-all-states

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[invictus]

1. K&R

[Vincardog]

2. Do you think it hasn't turns on its own people? What about the War on Drugs?

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. If only the rest of the world would stop antagonizing us. nt.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. Yep. We were completely peaceful until 9/11. nt

[GreenTea]

5. What kind of state of mind believes in pro war?

Money lusting & worshiping corporate republican?