Are we still spending two billion dollars a week on "War" and if so why

[Bandit]

Why aren't we spending two billion a week on cancer research. Americans are twelve thousand times more likely to die from cancer than from Al Qaeda or Taliban yet what we spend on "war" dwarfs what we spend on really defending American lives.

[asjr]

1. It is easy to get into war, much harder

to get out of it.

[TBF]

7. Especially easy when you consider who profits. n/t

[polichick]

2. Forget cancer research - cancer treatment is BIG business here in the U.S...

...any treatments that look promising are downplayed in order to keep the cancer industry going.

But I agree with the waste of money in Iraq ~ that is also about BIG business imo.

[rrneck]

4. Bingo

It looks like the same attitude to me. Let the individual/country/region get hopelessly sick through mismanagement and neglect, then pour tons of money into a last minute cure.

Panic pays.

[Democracyinkind]

3. Because we are in denial of our systemic fundamentals:

... empire of consumption. Empire. Consumption.

[chimpymustgo]

5. UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. n/t

[azul]

6. Yes, and that is just the supplemental. $700b War Dept budget

is appox $2 billion dollars a day.

Why do corporations and businesses like to control their workers? Company Store thing, where the business gets to control most all aspects of employees' lives and gets the wages back too, as well as debt that cannot be surmounted. No social programs get to be funded, money is all gone. No education, no healthcare, and energy wars are all consuming. Oily 1984.

War is an especially good business for controlling lives, and for other businesses to profit too. Fear of some enemy and change can allow the government to resort to media distortions and censorship, and the workings of war businesses and government get to be kept from public scrutiny.


Help Obama and congress get off this path of destruction, speak up for pay as we go rules and direct the money to education and healthcare and alternative energies. This idiot War Wagon needs to be way downsized.