Why only 10%?
Why do we spend more on the military than the next 11 nations combined? I have a better idea: Cut Pentagon spending by 10% and invest it in the fight to end homelessness, hunger and poverty in the richest country on Earth. nitter.vloup.ch/i/broadcasts/1DX…

Jun 25, 2020 · 8:09 PM UTC

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There’s never been a significant cut in funding I suspect. Some structure needs to be held if for nothing but time to shift psychological perspectives and all the socioeconomic systems of those so engaged.
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It's a big money industry with big money interests. And we all know that big money is the real key player in America's (fake) democracy.
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Because it's not feasible to cut more without doing even more damage.
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Because when we talked about pulling troops out of Syria, he was against it.
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Because its a start. Thanks Bernie! the ONLY member of Congress fighting against the military industrial complex. for 40 years.
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Exactly. Why not 50%?
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." ---Dwight Eisenhower
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Why are you a capitalist?