From the National Priorities Project’s Federal Budget Trade-Offs: “Taxpayers in Rutland County, Vermont [where I live] have paid $71.1 million for the Iraq War thus far. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
23,337 People with Health Care OR
106,399 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
1,706 Public Safety Officers OR
1,292 Music and Arts [...]
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From Bush Sends $2.9 Trillion Budget to Hill: “Senator Kent Conrad, the North Dakota Democrat who heads the Senate Budget Committee, [said,] ‘The president’s budget is filled with debt and deception, disconnected from reality and continues to move America in the wrong direction.’”
Take a look at the recently submitted Common Sense Budget Act of 2006, which has as its purpose, “To reallocate funds toward sensible priorities such as improved children’s education, increased children’s access to health care, expanded job training, and increased energy efficiency and conservation through a reduction of wasteful defense spending, and for other purposes.” [...]
Our political leaders in Washington have done right by us little people once again. To reward all of us hard workers who take time out of our lives to acquire a higher lever of education than is required by the Republic, our wonderful leaders have decided, in a vote that passed the Senate 51-50, with [...]
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