From Alan Grayson: $ for Bombs, $ for Bullets; Why No $ for Blackboards?

[Triana]

Today, the House is going to take up 'emergency' war money to keep funding the war in Afghanistan.

Originally, the bill contained billions of dollars to keep schools open, and children learning. Admittedly, there were seven dollars for the military-industrial complex for each dollar for our schools. Something is better than nothing, though.

But that deal wasn't good enough for the warmongers. The right-wing in the Senate stripped out money for teachers, because they want a bill that only funds killing and waste abroad.

This is lunacy. Lunacy.

The House needs to vote "no" on more borrowed money for a failed war. Call your member of Congress, right now:

202-224-3121

Stop cramming our wealth into the gullet of the military-industrial complex. No more money for the Shiites, the Sunnis and the Kurds. No more money for the Tajiks, the Hazaras and the Pushtuns. Charity begins at home.

Courage,

Rep. Alan Grayson

[xiamiam]

1. Grayson represents the alternative choice..he gets my vote..nt

[Triana]

6. I wish he'd run for Pres. n/t

[cornermouse]

2. Because children have no value. Children do not matter.

Its that simple. :grr:

[Triana]

7. Seems that way...

...and that's one effed up attitude for the U.S. to take but - well, look where the $$$ goes. :(

[Triana]

3. If you need talking points...

From VotersForPeace . . .

http://votersforpeace.us/press/index.php?itemid=4553

And, the size of the U.S. troop presence is becoming an absurdity. The U.S. now has 1,000 troops for every single Al-Qaeda operative in Afghanistan and each of those troops cost the U.S. $1 million per year - all in borrowed money. In addition, there are even more mercenaries in Afghanistan. The cost of the war mounts to $7 billion per month. More and more Americans are recognizing that the weapons and war budget are wrecking the U.S. middle class.

The strategy of training Afghans to defend themselves has been backfiring. In recent weeks three British troops were killed by an Afghan soldier in Helmand Province when the Afghan turned on them during a joint patrol. A week later, an Afghan soldier opened fire at a training exercise in northern Afghanistan killing two US civilian trainers (aka mercenaries) and a fellow Afghan soldier.

As bad as all of this sounds, Admiral Mike Mullen, America's top military officer warned this weekend that the Afghanistan war will get worse, that there will be more troop deaths as well as deaths of Afghans. Mullen's views are consistent with the number two in command in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez. Rodriguez testified before Congress in early July that while U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan were at record highs during the last two months, deaths will continue climbing for the foreseeable future.

While the U.S. has no exit strategy and the administration has been backing away from plans to remove significant numbers of troops in 2011, documents from Great Britain, show that country, the closes ally of the United States, will be out of Afghanistan by 2014.

[Oregone]

4. Too many blackboards creates a society that doesn't want bombs & bullets

Then there will be no money left for the MIC

[Triana]

5. Exactly. Pfft. n/t