Money, America's Moral Dilemma



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11 Blankets for refugees $100.00 1 hand grenade
3-day training for 160 youth in peace building $4,000.00 1 rocket launcher
Enroll 2 children in Head Start $14,000.00 1 cluster bomb
2 home health aides for disabled elderly $40,000.00 1 Hellfire missile
Associate Degree training for 29 RNs $145,600.00 1 Bunker-buster guided bomb
Rent subsidies for 1,000 families $586,000.00 1,000 M-16 Rifles
Annual salary/benefits for 15 RNs $763,000.00 1 minute war on Iraq
Improve, repair, modernize 20 schools $46 million 1 hour war on Iraq
WIC program nutrition for 200,000 families $130 million 7 unmanned Predator drones
Eradicate polio worldwide $275 million 3 tests of missile defense system
Best vaccinations for 10 million children worldwide $350 million 6 Trident II missiles
Childcare for 68,000 needy children $413 million Amphibious Warfare Landing Ship Program
7,000 units of affordable housing $494 million 1 year military aid to Colombia
Prevent cuts to education programs (FY2003) $1.1 billion 1 day of war on Iraq
Minimum support to save Amtrak train service $1.2 billion 2 months U.S. war force in Afghanistan
Annual salary/benefits for 38,000 elementary teachers $2.1 billion 1 Stealth bomber
Double federal funding for mass transit $12 billion 1 year cost of war in Afghanistan (01/02)
Healthcare coverage for 7 million children $16 billion 1 year nuclear weapons program
Save 11 million lives worldwide from infectious diseases $38 billion 1 month U.S. military spending
Free 4 year college for all high school grads $46 billion Amount Gov passed for more Iraq Aid
28 Million children starve to death in the world annually $6.1 billion 6 days of war on Iraq

Today's Situation Compared with the Good Old Depression

One reason America was Great during the 50’s and 60’s is that it had the largest middle class in the world. Then one dad could support an entire family. Now both husband and wife work and still are under constant stress just to make it each month. In the 50/60’s Americans had an average of 11 months of savings if jobs were lost. Now 80% of the families are just 3 paychecks away from losing their homes and all security. The one dad used to work for a month to pay his Taxes. Now most Americans work from January through June just to cover the amount the Government takes from us annually. We now have been sold into slavery. The American people are slaves to a 7 Trillion Deficite, that we can never pay off according to our current GDP.

The days of the “Great Depression” of the 30’s is much better than today. The population of 136,000,000 had almost 10% to 25% unemployment. That comes to a total of 13,000,000 Americans. But the government and the businesses were all trying to create jobs for everyone. Americans helped Americans. Now with a population of 290,000,000 they say we have lost 3.4 Million Full Paying Jobs just last year. And 5-6% Unemployment. If you include the Americans who have quit filing the percent could reach 8%. That comes to 17,400,000 unemployed Americans. There is an estimated 30 million illegial aliens who are getting the jobs that the old depression dust bowl workers stood in line for. We are actually in a situation much worse than the depression. The Government has already spent any help money on 7 Trillion Borrowed and not payed back monies. Doubling the Federal Money for Defence to 700 billion from 380 billion annually. But most of all,
Many businesses are outsourcing americans jobs to other countries. The big businesses that are multi-monopolies are not putting their profits back into the American People. In fact, in the days of the Revolution, they would be the most unamerican of all. We fought to obtain the “means of production”. These businessmen are literally shutting down all the means of production and moving their high tech industries to China, Malaysia, Asia,. Even Mexico is complaining because these businessmen are goint to China and undercutting the costs of making it in Mexico.

While in Britan from 1976-1989 we watched them go from 17 steel mills to 0. They had outsourced all metals to Japan and Germany until they could never tool-up in a time of crisis. This year the steel tarrif was cancelled and the few Industrial Cities in America have head the Giant Sucking Sound. It will not be long when were down to 2 or 3 steel mills. The trouble with letting everyone else make our high tech metals is if, there were a war, where we had to tool up like we did in WW2, we would have to ask China and Japan to make our weapons.

In Wasington all of our costal mills are closed. The Japanese have ships 3 miles off our coast and buy the raw lumber and we buy back our own milled lumber. The mill towns look like ghost towns. Are they all retraining to administrate computer networks. No, those jobs are being out sourced as well. Hundreds of Finance Firms now have people in India doing their basic book work. Why, only $ 3.00 an hour.

If you go to Target or Walmart all the made in’s say, Mexico or China.


Compiled by McKerracher
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