Cibiyar bincike ta Jami'ar Virginia, a fadin Rt. 29 North daga National Ground Intelligence Center, na gudanar da wani taro kan fasahar makaman da aka inganta ta yadda ya shafi al'amura masu fa'ida ta fuskar tattalin arziki.
Kuma me ya sa? Duka wuraren sojoji da wurin bincike suna ba da ayyukan yi, kuma mutanen da ke riƙe waɗannan ayyukan suna kashe kuɗinsu akan abubuwan da ke tallafawa wasu ayyukan. Me ba za a so ba?
To, matsala ɗaya ita ce abin da waɗannan ayyukan suke yi. Kuri'ar Win/Gllup da aka gudanar a kasashe 65 a farkon wannan shekarar, ya nuna cewa Amurka ta fi daukar hankali a matsayin babbar barazana ga zaman lafiya a duniya. Ka yi tunanin yadda zai yi sauti ga mutane a wasu ƙasashe lokacin da muke magana game da sojojin Amurka a matsayin shirin ayyuka.
Amma mu tsaya kan tattalin arziki. A ina ake samun kuɗin don yawancin abubuwan da ke faruwa a tushe da kuma wurin bincike a arewacin garin? Daga harajin mu da rancen gwamnati. Tsakanin 2000 zuwa 2010, 'yan kwangilar soja 161 a Charlottesville sun jawo $ 919,914,918 ta hanyar kwangila 2,737 daga gwamnatin tarayya. Fiye da dala miliyan 8 na wannan sun tafi jami'ar Mista Jefferson, kuma kashi uku cikin huɗu na hakan zuwa Makarantar Kasuwancin Darden. Kuma yanayin ya kasance koyaushe sama.
Yana da ma'ana cewa, saboda mutane da yawa suna da ayyuka a masana'antun yaki, bayar da yakin da shirye-shiryen yaki suna amfani da tattalin arziki. A gaskiya, bayar da wannan kuɗin a kan masana'antu mai zaman lafiya, ilimi, kayan aikin, ko ma a kan harajin haraji ga masu aiki zasu samar da karin ayyuka kuma a mafi yawan lokuta mafi kyawun aikin yi - tare da isasshen kudade don taimakawa kowa ya canza mulki daga aikin yaki zuwa ayyukan zaman lafiya .
An kafa fifikon fifikon sauran ciyarwa ko ma rage haraji ta hanyar karatun seminal daga Jami'ar Massachusetts a Amherst, akai-akai kuma ba a taɓa karyata shi ba cikin shekaru da yawa da suka gabata. Ba wai kawai kashe kuɗin kan jiragen ƙasa ko na'urorin hasken rana ko makarantu zai haifar da ƙarin ayyuka masu biyan kuɗi ba, amma don haka ba zai taɓa sanya harajin dala a farkon wuri ba. Kudaden sojoji ya fi komai muni, kawai ta fuskar tattalin arziki.
Ƙara ga wannan tasirin da manufofin ketare da yawan kashe kuɗin soja ya yi tun kafin Shugaba Eisenhower ya gargaɗe mu a ranar da ya bar ofis: "Dukkan tasirin - tattalin arziki, siyasa, har ma da ruhaniya - "in ji shi, "ana jin shi a kowane birni. kowane gidan Jiha, kowane ofishin gwamnatin tarayya.” A yau ma fiye da haka, da yawa don haka watakila mun lura da shi kadan, don haka ya zama na yau da kullum.
Connecticut ta kafa wani kwamiti da zai yi aiki kan sauyawa zuwa masana'antu masu zaman lafiya, musamman saboda dalilai na tattalin arziki. Virginia ko Charlottesville na iya yin haka.
Gwamnatin Amurka tana kashe sama da dala biliyan 600 a kowace shekara a kan Ma'aikatar Tsaro, kuma sama da dala tiriliyan 1 a kowace shekara kan aikin soja a duk sassan da basussuka don yaƙe-yaƙe da suka gabata. Ya zarce rabin kashe-kashen da Amurka ke kashewa, kuma kusan kamar yadda sauran ƙasashen duniya suka haɗa, gami da yawancin membobin NATO da kawayen Amurka.
Zai kashe kusan dala biliyan 30 a kowace shekara don kawo karshen yunwa da yunwa a duniya. Wannan yana kama da kuɗaɗe masu yawa a gare ku ko ni. Zai kashe kusan dala biliyan 11 a kowace shekara don samarwa duniya ruwa mai tsafta. Bugu da ƙari, wannan yana kama da yawa. Amma la'akari da adadin kuɗin da ake kashewa kan shirye-shirye masu lahani na tattalin arziki waɗanda kuma ke lalata 'yancin ɗan adam, muhallinmu, amincinmu, da ɗabi'unmu. Ba zai kashe kuɗi mai yawa ba don ganin Amurka a matsayin babbar barazana ga wahala da talauci maimakon zaman lafiya.
David Swanson mazaunin Charlottesville ne kuma mai tsara WorldBeyondWar.org.
