America’s Ballooning Military Budget Is a Boondoggle for Virginia Taxpayers
It’s time to move the money.
It’s time to move the money.
There is an endless flow of money for weapons but less than a pittance to avert planetary disaster.
The economic shock waves created by the war between Russia and Ukraine are already hurting Western economies and the pain will only increase. The slower growth, price hikes, and higher interest rates resulting from the efforts of central banks to tame inflation, as well as increased unemployment, will hurt people living in the West, particularly the poorest among them who spend a far larger proportion of their earnings on basic necessities like food and gas.
Angelo Cardona is a multi-award-winning human rights defender, and peace and disarmament activist.
According to local news media in Kitsap, Washington, it’s expected to take approximately nine years to complete the six above-ground tanks project shutting down and closing 33 underground Navy fuel tanks at the US military Manchester Fuel Depot in Manchester, Washington and will cost the Department of Defense around $200 million.
Chicago pension funds are currently invested in massive weapons manufacturers. But community investments are not only better political options, they make more financial sense.
