Tell Congress to rein in Pentagon Spending
This week, we have an opportunity to push Congress to rein in Pentagon spending—the House of Representatives is going to vote on The National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (NDAA), which authorizes massive U.S. military spending.
Join us in supporting amendments that will put a stop to the corporate boondoggles and misguided policies that fuel arms races with China and Russia—and that cost us dearly here at home.
If we don’t act, Congress may give nearly $640 billion to the Pentagon, which would exceed the caps set by sequestration.
Let’s let Congress know that we don’t buy it.
We don’t believe that while education, food stamps, housing, and other social programs are being cut every day, we can afford to spend more money on failed weapons systems (such as the outrageously expensive F-35), more nuclear weapons and troops abroad, and permanent foreign bases.
All year, Wage Peace supporters have been vocal in their opposition to Pentagon waste. This is another opportunity to tell Congress to invest in people, not the Pentagon.
Your representative needs to hear from you today!
I saw this and I can’t tell you how many materialistic…people I thought about. I’m not going to name them because I’ve had a few glasses of wine.
Rep. McCarthy: Pushing 300K Children Off Lunch Program To Protect Military Spending Is Trimming The Fat
Someone ask the people who live here
to explain this.
sure it's outrageous, but does your outrage have teeth?
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Sean Hannity says beans and rice are the solution to hunger
SEAN HANNITY THINKS THE IDEA THAT AMERICANS ARE GOING TO BED HUNGRY can’t be true when you can survive on beans and rice — ….
If you want to hurt Slanthead, find his sponsors and tell them what a jerk he is.
Clinton kept the deficit low by putting the burden on the backs of the poor. Democrats keep bragging about how much Clinton did to bring down the deficit, over-and-over, and they skip straight over how welfare was gutted in 1996.
I’m sick of the revisionism and the hypocrisy of it. If Democrats have any integrity, they’d never try and pander to urban myths instead of true economic theory along with admitting to being bewildered by their impotence to assist and remediate the chronically impoverished.
Is Yemen on the Brink of Humanitarian Disaster?
Aid workers say Yemen is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster; but as needs in the country increase, the delivery of aid is becoming ever more complicated.
IDK but this made me laugh really hard.
Laughing is one reaction when you realize it’s people like you who they’d set under their wheels. Maybe it’s easier to live in denial then admit to yourself that you’ve got a life full of struggle just to make a decent living.
This is one of the biggest problems about the pure ideological operation of the market economy… if people aren’t going to consume, if they aren’t going to continue to prop up the flawed system - even if it’s because they work dead end jobs or got retrenched due to the GFC or whatever - then they can go off into a corner and die, for all the market cares. That is what people mean - in its truest form - when they talk about letting the market decide.
And the people driving this ideology are the ones that do have the money, that do continue to consume and will never have to be concerned that they won’t be able to cover their own bills that get them good health care and good food that stops them needing the health care.
The morons of the middle class that are out there waving banners around for the Tea Party, that think they’re part of the winning team who won’t ever need to worry about that sort of stuff, a lot of them are being conned by the big money behind the Tea Party and are really just a couple of strikes of bad luck away from being the ones that can’t afford to cover their monthly bills or care for their children if they get sick. When that happens, in a world where (their) demands have become reality, or closer to reality as we’re seeing now, the market will tell them, too, to just fuck off and die.
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