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USA to cut social welfare, health, but increase spending on nuclear weapons

Some say Social Security and Medicare are under the gun, yet nobody’s talking about the $185 Billion increase to “modernize” America’s Nuclear arsenal and delivery systems…..

President ‘Nuclear Free World’ Obama and the Tea Party have resurrected policies that led to America’s First Great Depression.

The FY 2012 budget for the National Nuclear Security Administration includes 7.6 billion for nuclear weapons research and production.

66 Years of Nuclear Insanity and Real Change will do US good, Eileen Fleming Salem-News.com (CLERMONT, Fla.) 8 August 11,  – This August 6th and 9th mark the 66th anniversaries of the most brutal acts of terrorism upon innocent people; America’s atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It has been spun ad’nauseum those actions “saved thousands of American lives” but the Pentagon and White House knew that Japan was ready to surrender and all they wanted was to “save face” and retain their emperor.

But the Manhattan Project was the steamroller for the Industrial Military Complex Continue reading →

August 9, 2011 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | Leave a comment

USA to spend $185 billion on nuclear weapons

How to Save a Quarter of a Trillion Dollars, HUFFINGTON POST, Lawrence Wittner, 8 Aug 11 In the midst of the current stampede to slash federal spending, Congress might want to take a look at two unnecessary (and dangerous) “national security” programs that, if cut, would save the United States over a quarter of a trillion dollars over the next decade.

The first of these is the Obama administration’s plan to spend at least $185 billion in the next ten years to “modernize” the U.S. government’s nuclear weapons arsenal. At present, the U.S. government possesses approximately 8,500 nuclear warheads, and it is hard to imagine that this country would be safer from attack if it built more nuclear weapons or “improved” those it already possesses. Indeed, President Barack Obama has declared — both on the 2008 campaign trail and as President – that he is committed to building a world without nuclear weapons. This seems like a perfectly sensible position — one favored by most nations and, as polls show, most people (including most people in the United States). Therefore, the administration should be working on securing further disarmament agreements — not on upgrading the U.S. nuclear arsenal in preparation for future nuclear confrontations and nuclear wars…….

by scrapping plans for nuclear weapons “modernization” and for national missile defense — programs that are both useless and provocative — the United States would save $271 billion (well over a quarter of a trillion dollars) in the next ten years. Whether used to balance the budget or to fund programs for jobs, healthcare, education, and the environment, this money would go a long way toward resolving some of the nation’s current problems.– …http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-wittner/budget-cuts-nuclear-missile_b_921157.html

August 9, 2011 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | Leave a comment