Let's Cut Defense Spending in Half and Use The Money Currently Wasted to Pay for Medicare for All and Free College... Since the Military Has NOT ACTUALLY DEFENDED The USA since 1945, Why Spend Billions on Something we Do NOT USE?

Since August 15th, 1945 [Victory in Japan Day] ALL WARS HAVE BEEN BOGUS... We have Invaded Foreign Countries and Taken Sides in THEIR Civil Wars. Remember Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iraq and Afghanistan? Why Did We Spend Taxpayer Dollars to Blow Those Countries UP?

There was an ACTUAL NEED to Defend the USA on 9/11/2001 But the Military FAILED COMPLETELY... Civilians took down the Hijacked Airplane in Pennsylvania...

All those Bogus Wars Have Just Been Marketing Tools to Sell Weapons. Corporate Welfare... The Worst Example is Lockheed Missiles and Space... They Used to Build Spaceships but NOW they Build Bombs to Kill Children in Yemen... What a Tragic Waste... Not only a Waste of Civilian's Lives but a Waste of Engineering Talent... Imagine What Could Have Been if Lockheed Hadn't Turned to the DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE? 

REPEAL AND REPLACE tRUMP's "Tax Cut For The Rich Law." It has FAILED to Collect Enough Taxes to Fund The Government's Spending...

Increasing the National Debt... to be Repaid by Your Children and Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren unto the 7th Generation. He's an Economic Disaster of Biblical Proportions. Like a Plague of Locusts or the Nile River turning to Blood... 

Vast Increase in Homelessness Caused by Trump-0-Nomics.

Headline: The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You. 

For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans last year paid a lower total tax rate — spanning federal, state and local taxes — than any other income group, according to newly released data. For middle-class and poor families, the picture is different. They now pay more in payroll taxes (which finance Medicare and Social Security) than in the past. The American economy just doesn’t function very well when tax rates on the rich are low and inequality is sky high. It was true in the lead-up to the Great Depression, and it’s been true recently. Which means that raising high-end taxes isn’t about punishing the rich (who, by the way, will still be rich). It’s about creating an economy that works better for the vast majority of Americans.

Trump-0-Nomics: Amazon Pays No Taxes.
People Live in Tents.

In their book, Saez and Zucman sketch out a modern progressive tax code. The overall tax rate on the richest 1 percent would roughly double, to about 60 percent. The tax increases would bring in about $750 billion a year, or 4 percent of G.D.P., enough to pay for universal pre-K, an infrastructure program, medical research, clean energy and more. Those are the kinds of policies that do lift economic growth.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich Law FAILS to collect enough money to fund the government... We have to borrow money to make ends meet... HIGHEST DEFICIT IN HISTORY!

Mnuchin Warns of ‘Late Summer’ Default If No Debt-Limit Increase.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-22/mnuchin-warns-of-late-summer-default-if-no-debt-limit-increase

Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich Law is a Total Failure. The Government is simply not receiving enough money in Taxes to pay for what it spends... DUH...

The government has to borrow more and more money to keep operating...  

Treasury Secretary Little Stevie Mnuchin on Wednesday said that the debt ceiling will need to be lifted by “late Summer,” earlier than some analysts had predicted.

“I haven’t been given an exact date, but I would say it’s late summer, and I share your concern and I urge Congress to raise the debt ceiling as soon as possible,” Mnuchin said at a House Financial Services Committee hearing.

The debt ceiling, which limits how much Treasury can borrow to pay off the government’s bills, was technically reached in March, but the Treasury Department has embarked on a series of “extraordinary measures” that allow it to borrow internally to keep paying bills.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/445056-mnuchin-pegs-debt-ceiling-deadline-as-late-summer-earlier-than-expected

I saw an Inspirational Speech by Bernie Sanders on Democracy Now! TV Show. The Ideas he proposed Three Years ago were RADICAL but NOW they are Mainstream.

https://www.sandersinstitute.com/

 Medicare for All, $15.00 Minimum Wage, Legalize Marijuana and FREE the Cannabis Prisoners... Reduce Spending for War (Like our helping to bomb YEMEN) and The Rich should Pay Their Fair Share in Taxes...

hand drawn Bernie for President sign done with felt pens

hand drawn Bernie for President sign done with felt pens

Let's reduce the defense budget to half by ending CrazyWars... I wonder what the Mission is... Any GOAL? Anything?

 Obviously, It's not to defend the USA. The Military has not Defended the USA since 1945. There was a real attack on us on 9/11/2001 but the military failed to protect the country. Total Failure... So there must be some other reason we have invaded Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Is it simply to sell weapons to the Pentagon? Whenever we have a war we sell a lot of weapons, meals, tents, bandages, trucks, and airplanes... Corporations make a great profit. Soldiers die, civilians die, enemies die, but nothing is really accomplished. After all, what difference did it make who won the war in Nicaragua? None. It made a difference to the people of Nicaragua but it had no effect on life here in the USA. None of these Crazy Wars have made any difference to the people of the USA. NONE! The only military action that made any sense was the dozen men that assassinated Osama bin Laden. That was a worthwhile mission.

Therefore, It's really important to remember to NOT VOLUNTEER for the military. I saw President Trump talking at a Wounded Warrior Event today and it reminded me that all those people VOLUNTEERED to go die for nothing. OOPS, they got wounded because ___________. Fill in the blank if you know why. Was it simply because they couldn't find a civilian job and the military was hiring? Was it because they saw a John Wayne movie and got all inspired? Was it because they were easily brainwashed?

If we cut defense spending in half we could afford many wonderful things. We could prevent hunger 100%. We could pay for health care for all. We could pay for great school for all. We could pay teachers more... Not only is defense money wasted but people's lives are wasted also. The engineers that invented drone airplanes could have been designing better electric cars... BUT, they wasted their talents making drones... Most soldiers spend their entire career without once doing anything of value. What IF we hired them to rebuild our infrastructure? We have roads that need paving but no money to fund construction crews. WHAT IF WE STARTED BEING SMART?

So, what can one person DO to end Crazywar? Vote Democratic... and write to your representatives and ask them to stop funding stupid stuff. For example: You could copy and paste this message and email it to them.

Forgive all student debt - why not finance college with federal money, simply cut spending for the military

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