The cost of maintaining a fully equipped military is staggeringly high. Since it's our tax dollars that fund the military, shouldn't we know exactly what we're paying for? A glance at Wikipedia reveals the following:
(As of 2001) the BGM-109 Tomahawk missile model has become a significant part of the US naval arsenal. It gives ships and submarines an extremely accurate, long-range, conventional land attack weapon. Each costs about $1,900,000 USD.
$1.9 million dollars.
Each. What do you think could be done in this country (or around the world) if we had an extra $1.9 million dollars? The purpose of this blog is to bring awareness to the American people (and those who want to buy our missiles) as to the things you could do for your people if you just built one bomb less.
That's right. We're not asking for total disarmament. We're not demanding that the military go away and spend nothing. We're just asking that the spending ratio start favoring humans more and bombs less.
While the Department of Defense may claim that spending percentages in the federal budget for the military hover around 15-21%,
other groups have pointed out that the
real figure is as high as 51%.
They can afford to build one bomb less. And there are plenty of other things we could do with the money.
