In the US
65% of all the governments available spending is on the military. At
present America is fighting in seven countries across the world,
Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and its latest
war machine adventure, Uganda. If we add the “war-on-terror” that
is eight brutal ventures through which the military industrial
complex is reaping tax payers money and feeding it to their
shareholders bank accounts to the tune of more than a trillion
dollars over the last ten years. In the UK, a much smaller country,
this year alone we have spent £9 billion on two wars, Afghanistan
and Libya plus maintaining that illegal missile system Trident.
Apart from the death, destruction and misery these wars cause to ordinary people, every
penny spent is tax payers money and it goes straight to the corporate
world's shareholders. What kind of transformation would have taken place in
America if that trillion dollars had been spent back into the service
of the people who had donated it in the first place through their
tax? What changes could we have made in the last year here in the UK,
if that £9 billion of our money had been re-invested in our civil
society, after all, it is our money, why should we want it to be used
to kill and maim and in the process enrich the arms industry.
How
can we proclaim to be civilised when we spend such large proportions
of our resources on death and destruction in other peoples home
lands. It is not as if the world has not got problems of poverty and
deprivation to be sorted out. The poverty and deprivation across the
world is expected to rely on charity, while wars get the full backing
of governments and all the resources they can muster. Ah, that's
capitalism for you.
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