<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">It’s not the case that the US can’t spend money on worthwhile things because the money’s been spent on war.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As the late economist J. K. Galbraith put it, no one turns down a check signed by the US government.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 10, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Harry Mickalide via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">expaining the apathy of the USA public to their country's perpetual war-making. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These are good starting points on building an anti-war platform and suggest that we push the narrative about what we COULD spend money on if we cut the war budget</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/8-reasons-americans-cant-shake-their-indifference-to-war/" class="">https://www.thenation.com/article/8-reasons-americans-cant-shake-their-indifference-to-war/</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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