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 and thus; after nuking Hiroshima, America targeted and terrorized Nagasaki where Japans highest concentration of Christians resided.

“Fat Man” immediately fried 40,000 and the death toll in Nagasaki alone totaled 73,884 with 75,000 injured and several hundred thousand more who have become diseased and are dying due to nuclear fallout and the blow back of radiation.

“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased…to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946

The universally understood definition of insanity is to persist in the same behavior while expecting a different outcome.

Budgets are moral documents and where ever your heart is-is where you lay your money down.

We the people of this republic are being taxed to pay for a $3.7 Trillion Budget that Calls for Military Spending Increases and Deep Cuts to Social Service Programs.

“Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest, is a nation approaching spiritual death.”-Rev. MLK, Jr.

The Tea Party succeeded to protect the tax breaks for the wealthiest 1% of Americans and the next step is for the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to create a bipartisan plan to reduce deficits by an additional $1.2 trillion over the next decade.

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…..

Dr. Joseph Gerson, Disarmament Coordinator of the American Friend Service Committee and Director of its Peace and Economic Security Program says: “The U.S. is building the nuclear arsenal needed to enforce empire for decades to come. The deal that secured New START ratification committed Obama to ‘a major modernization effort to revitalize’ the nation’s genocidal strategic nuclear warheads and its massive arsenal of stockpiled nuclear weapons.

“The extra $185 billion will pay to expand the nuclear weapons production infrastructure, train a new generation of nuclear weapons designers and technicians, extend the murderous ‘life’ of aging nuclear warheads, and replace so-called ‘old delivery systems.’”

Unless we the people put an end to America’s 66 years of Nuclear Insanity, the Pentagon will be modernizing low-yield nuclear weapons that will be deliverable by new nuclear-capable F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and cruise missiles. Funding also will remain to replace Trident submarines and pay for a new generation of nuclear-capable drones and air launched cruise missiles.

With the need for massive U.S. budget reductions, cutting the Pentagon’s funds makes Common Sense, but 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.

Funding for a new “Uranium Processing Facility” for production of thermonuclear secondaries at the Y-12 production plant near Oak Park Ridge, TN, is proposed to increase to $160.2 million from $115 million in 2011.

The 2012 budget request also creates a new Life Extension Program for the B61 warhead funded at $223.6 million, even though that gravity bomb’s original mission of forward deployment in Europe against a Soviet threat vanished at the end of the Cold War.

Life Extension Programs extend the service lives of existing nuclear weapons for three decades or more, in contradiction to our declared national security goal of a future world free of nuclear weapons, and it also endows them with new military capabilities. …..

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