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7. Life's too short to spend killing and destroying. Let's do some healing amd building, for a change.

Fri Dec 23, 2011, 10:48 PM

Dec 2011

Going by how we vote, it's a good bet that's what most Americans would want. But, no.

Senate Approves 2012 Pentagon Budget of $644.3 Billion

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-05/senate-approves-2012-pentagon-budget-of-644-3-billion.html

Toss in the wars and off-the-books black budgets and we're talking a trillion.

A trillion dollars, properly applied, would change this planet overnight.

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Sorry, America. No Peace Dividend for You. [View all] Octafish Dec 2011 OP

Homeland Uber Allies Security Theatre AND TSA gotta go, also. elehhhhna Dec 2011 #1

You're as smart as anybody in any room or out, elehhhhna! Octafish Dec 2011 #5

More good questions destined for the mound. K&R (nt) T S Justly Dec 2011 #2

It is a part of the deficit discussion... bhikkhu Dec 2011 #8