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Originally Posted by sgtdmski  Perhaps when Ben or is it Jerry does a nice little cartoon showing how when $1.00 in taxes goes to the department of education and only $0.38 gets into the classroom I will watch.
Or better yet, perhaps when they further break down the money that goes to the military so everyone can see exactly where it is being spent. It is so easy to say take money from the military, but never exactly saying where.
SO what should it be???? Pay cuts for the soldiers, less ammunition, less fuel, less vehicles, less clothing, less housing, or what!!!!!
dmk | Cut nothing our soldiers need.
Eliminate funding completely for the School of the Americas (I've forgotten the new name).
Eliminate funding for buying/building more nukes. We have enough to destroy the planet and then some.
That's off the top of my head. Hmm... I found the DoD budget for 2007 (large PDF file), but can't find these items in it, so I can't say how much we'd save.
Oh, and one more: better diplomacy. I often wonder how many of our diplomats, and those in the administration, have had training in anger management and conflict resolution? If we don't *use* the military, it doesn't *cost* as much! |