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Cut the War Budget for a Green New Deal

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Support a conversion from a weapons economy to a climate-saving economy

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The U.S. military budget is 3 times that of Russia’s and China’s combined,
and therefore can be cut in half without sacrificing national security. *

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The $717 billion annual military budget is a threat to our national security because:

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1. The use of these weapons creates enemies instead of reducing them;

2. All the wars of the last 60 years have been wars of aggression, not defense; **

3. The U.S. military is the world’s largest single generator of climate changing emissions;

4. The U.S. wars for petroleum keeps us using fossil fuel instead of renewable energy;

5. The manufacture of weapons burns up over $300 billion worth of oil annually;

6. U.S. encirclement of Russia and China threatens peaceful trade and prosperity for all; *** 

7.  A planned $1.7 trillion upgrade of nuclear weapons makes them more likely to be used. 
8. The profiteering U.S. war budget is an attack on the health and security of everyone.

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* https://tinyurl.com/USwarBudget-3xChina-Russia
**  http://tinyurl.com/barry911
*** https://tinyurl.com/USthreatensChina-Russia
 

We need jobs in clean energy, not more weapons

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Maryland is a perfect example of a warfare economy since the export of Baltimore’s heavy industry.

The best jobs are now at the National Security Administration, Fort Meade, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Fort Detrick, Andrews Air Force Base, Edgewood Arsenal, Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center, U.S. Naval Academy, National Guard and Air National Guard, Army reserves, school ROTC, JHU Applied Physics Lab, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, Fairchild, Raytheon, and hundreds of sub-contractors – all having bosses and workers who support military expenditures.

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The U.S. is responsible for the deaths of 20 million people in 37 countries since WWII.*

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The 2 existential threats to continued life on earth are “climatastrophe” and nuclear war.**

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Tell politicians to prove they are not being bought by weapons manufacturers. Tell them to cut weapons production and support a Green New Deal instead, which employ more workers per Federal dollar spent than does weapons-making. ***

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* https://tinyurl.com/USkilled20million
** https://tinyurl.com/moreJobsCreatedperDollarSpent

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