Sky’s The Limit for Military Waste $717 Billion ’19 Budget

With near consensus from both sides of the aisle, congress just rubber-stamped a nearly three quarters of a trillion dollar spending plan for defense contractors. There is no limit on what we will spend on weapons, according to todays guest Khury Peterson-Smith talking about his groups report on a new $717 billion military budget for 2019. The Institute for Policy Studies report makes clear the priorities of spending taxpayer dollars on systems that actually serve to weaken Americas national security. There is no system of evaluation of performance and results. A new arms race,more than even the Pentagon wants, is a highly questionable investment, serving to increase anger across the world by the victims of our bombs. What will it take to bring people out in the streets?

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