A suggestion to fund Social Security

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Below study (article and link) shows we spent 27.6 billion to maintain our nuclear arsenal which includes thousands of warheads. The figures that are being thrown out there are that SS will be bankrupt by 2042. If we can just get rid of everything except, say.....the 7.6 billion every year in maintenance expense, that would make 740 billion available by then even if no one pays any SS tax. And, just to sell it to the Bush Bunch, there would still be enough bombs to destroy the world should we have to do that (in case of a filibuster, or a low flying Cessna in the vicinity of the rose garden for example).


The Cost of Preparing to Fight
vs.
Preventing Nuclear War

Between 1940 and 1995, the United States spent an estimated $3.5 Trillion to prepare for nuclear war. This went toward building and maintaining nuclear weapons and their delivery systems as well as commanding, controlling, and defending against the bomb. Spending on nuclear weapons did not disappear along with the Soviet Union. The United States will spend nearly $27 Billion in Fiscal Year 2001 to prepare to fight a nuclear war.

http://www.cdi.org/nuclear/nukecost.html