Those who take the sword will perish by the sword

I have the highest respect for those who serve in the lower ranks of the military and often are forced to sacrifice life and limb to defend this country. But it's time to say "enough already!" The military budget of the United States of America is 415 billion dollars a year! President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the damage that the military industrial complex would do to our country and his words have come true. Travis Air Force Base is many things. 1. A large area of Travis Air Force Base is devoted to relics of former American military adventures. You can see the development of US military power and spending. Weapon system upon weapon system. Millions upon millions. Billions upon billions. Useless. Perhaps tax payers were got to vote on the spending, but my gut tells me they didn't have a chance. The military industrial complex used war scares to get the necessary war items approved. Then Ronald Reagan and other presidents esculated military spending. Taxpayers didn't get to vote on it. Our current war is costing the American tax payer two billion dollars a day plus the life and limbs of our sons and daughters. But many people in power today are making millions perhaps billions off this war. They are trying to convince you that it is necessary. With just a fraction of that 415 billion a year, 15 billion, we could eliminate poverty and ignorance which are leading causes of war. Jeffery D. Sachs outlines how this can be done in his recent book The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our time.
Why not try beating those swords into plowshares for a change? It's cheaper. Unless, of course, you are sucking on the military industrial hind tit. But Sachs and his kind are only asking for 15 billion of the 415 billion a year. Maybe we could manage......