16-12-2010, 04:28 PM
Not only should veterans take a stand for peace, the taxpayer too should also do the same. While veterans pay the highest cost for these wars, the public is suffering as well. Some states are reducing services because they cannot afford to provide them. Teachers are losing their jobs, police forces are been reduced in size. Last year corporate news commentators talked about the staggering cost of Obama's health care bill, yet no one complains about the financial cost of the Iraq and Afghan wars, and the huge cost to maintain hundreds of overseas bases.
Republicans are demanding tax cuts but no one is demanding a cut to military expenditures. The corporate news networks have been giving a lot of attention to the size of the national debt, estimated at 12 trillion dollars, yet not one of them has mentioned the impact of military spending on this ballooning debt. I am reminded of the film Why We Fight. This documentary includes Eisenhower's farewell address in 1961. Oliver Stone's film JFK showed part of the speech. What is fascinating about it is, in his address he talked about the cost of war and expressed this cost in terms of what public services and goods had to be given up to pay for such a huge military. What he said then is now coming true.
John
Republicans are demanding tax cuts but no one is demanding a cut to military expenditures. The corporate news networks have been giving a lot of attention to the size of the national debt, estimated at 12 trillion dollars, yet not one of them has mentioned the impact of military spending on this ballooning debt. I am reminded of the film Why We Fight. This documentary includes Eisenhower's farewell address in 1961. Oliver Stone's film JFK showed part of the speech. What is fascinating about it is, in his address he talked about the cost of war and expressed this cost in terms of what public services and goods had to be given up to pay for such a huge military. What he said then is now coming true.
John