Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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It’s true that it’s a jobs program, but a massive investment in infrastructure and education would be even more of a jobs program. Plus the skill set that goes into the defense industry could be easily transitioned to peace building and peacetime projects.
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The B 21 raider is built by Northrop Grumman. Read my thread below to understand how the military industrial complex works…
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The 20th century worldview saw no relationship between consciousness and the external world. The 21st century is a correction of that perception. Listen to this week’s #TheMWPodcast to hear Dr. Bruce Lipton on the ways that our thinking shapes our reality. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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8/ This, by the way, is why our new Sec. of Defense should NOT be a corporate board member at Raytheon!!! google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.co…
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And yet we continue to support candidates who do not take it on. We need to hold ourselves responsible for our own complicity in allowing politics to be more like high school drama class or reality TV show than a serious conduit for social change.
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Of course. But our defense budget doesn’t reflect military strength. It reflects profit maximization for the military industrial complex, a huge multi billion $ defense industry that does more to drain our strength than add to it. We spend way more than the pentagon even asks for
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We do know how! And 4 factors statistically increase peace & decrease violence: Expanded economic opportunities for women, expanded educational opportunities for children, reduction of violence against women & the amelioration of unnecessary human despair.
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2/ When I was growing up there was still a draft, so people yelled about all this because it was visceral, it was personal. I’m NOT saying we should bring back the draft, but I’m saying that the lack of it makes it too easy to keep this issue on the periphery of our consciousness
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1/ We allowed this to happen. We haven’t been talking about it. We haven’t pushed for it. Quietude is the enemy.We support a lot of politicians who don’t say a word & neither do we. It’s when we change that the system will start to change. Slow or fast isn’t the issue right now.
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When you’re aware of something, talk about it; that’s how things change. That’s why there’s more environmental awareness; why Biden has so many climate change people in the new admin etc. Politicians only do what people force them to do. Refuse to shut up about things that matter
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7/ People are homeless & sick, children hungry & uneducated and our infrastructure sucks so Raytheon, Northrup Grumman & Boeing can get more contracts. We allow core needs of our society to go unaddressed so a few people can make more money. This has nothing to do with security.
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6/ $ spent on infrastructure & education add more to US economy than defense investment. Does military create jobs? Yes! But those same job skills could as easily be applied to infrastructure jobs etc. We spend billions *above* what the Pentagon says it needs for a strong defense
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I respect that those jobs are needed by people. It’s just that the same skills that are being applied to building tanks we don’t need, could be applied to building infrastructure that we do need.
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Investments in education and infrastructure create more jobs & produce more into the economy than do defense-related jobs. And I didn’t say we should be isolationist or that we shouldn’t have a strong defense! But our Pentagon budget is not just about defense; it’s about money.
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So you think we use all that military power to just spread peace and love around the world? You think Trump didn’t oversee increase in military spending and help fund a war against Yemen? You think we just keep all that military equipment in warehouses somewhere and don’t use it?
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5/ Yet transitioning from a war economy to a peace economy should be as high on our list of goals as transition from a dirty economy to a green economy. And they’re inextricably tied. DOD is one of the worst polluters; there’s no such thing as a “green war.”
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4/ 53 cents of every dollar we spend goes to defense-related activity; we’re a permanent war economy. Yet unlike when I was young, the war machine in DC has succeeded now in creating mass acceptance that this is just the way it is. Politicians get away with not even mentioning it
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