[Peace-discuss] a really good article

[Harry Mickalide]

In light of your point we could frame it like this: "How much would it cost
to socialize health care, remake our energy grid into renewable energy, and
feed every American suffering from hunger? It is estimated at X dollars.
Now we could either increase the tax rate by 15% OR cut the military budget
by 10%."

I made the numbers up but you get the idea.

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Harry Mickalide <mickalideh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Technically true, completely pedantic, and willfully ignorant of the
> spirit of the point: top form Carl
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 3:12 PM, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It’s not the case that the US can’t spend money on worthwhile things
>> because the money’s been spent on war.
>>
>> As the late economist J. K. Galbraith put it, no one turns down a check
>> signed by the US government.
>>
>>
>> On Oct 10, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Harry Mickalide via Peace-discuss <
>> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>>
>> expaining the apathy of the USA public to their country's perpetual
>> war-making.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> https://www.thenation.com/article/8-reasons-americans-cant-
>> shake-their-indifference-to-war/
>>
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