1/ Every time they want to throw another $6B or $7B onto the Pentagon budget, remember this: there are four factors that statistically indicate there will be a greater incidence of peace and a lower incidence of conflict:

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2/ 1. Expansion of economic opportunities for women. 2. Expansion of educational opportunities for children. 3. Reduction of violence against women. 4.Amelioration of unnecessary human despair. Those are the pillars of an agenda to wage peace.
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3/ The Senate panel mentioned in that article is not responding to the needs of the military as suggested by military leaders, so much as they are responding to the short term profit motive of the defense contractors who are their donor class.
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Well, we voted for it. Sooo.
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For Defence Contractors, money is never an object.
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"Fear is the mind-killer."
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After ww2 it was decided we would become a permanent wartime economy. Think of one moment in time since then that we haven’t been in some military engagement
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Imagine if those defense contractors lobbied for increasing the nasa budget instead and switched their MAIN focus to space?
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How is it that there's such vast consensus among both party members on huge budgets for the military? Who are they actually working for while people are overwhelmingly against it?
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Joe Biden campaigned on RAISING the pentagon budget. Did you even look at his platform?