American Voices of Dissent by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781317263722
Google: YD9ACwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-22T06:00:48+00:00

WILLIAM HARTUNG: Our military budget … is now almost $400 billion a year; just the increase that they got after September 11th of close to $50 billion is bigger than the entire military budget of any other country in the world. Were spending more, apparently, than the next twenty-five or twenty-six countries combined. [See Appendix.] But because Bush is also pushing large tax cuts, because he’s also increasing the Homeland Security budget, and much of that money goes to the same companies for security and military kinds of items, because they’ve had big supplemental requests to pay for the war in Afghanistan [and] the war in Iraq, which could cost several hundred billion dollars … there’s not much left in the US budget for domestic needs. More than 50 cents on the dollar is already going to the military. And that is going to increase once we have the tax cuts, once we pay for these wars. Bush’s budget deficits are now pushing $400 billion a year—the largest in the history of our country.

LARRY HOLMES (speaking at the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn, New York, November 21, 2002): They are going to spend billions of dollars on this war, an occupation—how many we don’t even know. At a time when they are closing senior-citizen centers right here in Brooklyn, throwing senior people out, they can’t even have their meal, “meals on wheels,” or whatever. And they’re going to raise the tuition at CUNY [City University of New York] and push the students out. And all the services for the homeless have been shut down and all they’re doing with the homeless now is arresting them. And at the same time all this money is being wasted … on murder! This is a crime!

REV. AL SHARPTON (speaking at the Riverside Church, New York City, December 8, 2002): What George Bush has done is he’s told America to ignore what they ought to be awakened to, because the bogeyman is coming. Don’t worry about prescription drugs, the bogeyman’s coming. Don’t worry about affordable housing, the bogeyman’s coming. Don’t worry about rising hunger, the bogeyman’s coming. Don’t worry about deficits in the states and the cities, the bogeyman’s coming. We can’t even keep schools up to where they ought to be in this present technology. But we can get billions of dollars to go after the bogeyman.

MICHAEL RATNER: Right now, there’s a tremendous opposition to the war. There’s a rising tide. It’s in small communities, it’s in big communities, it’s in churches, it’s in hospitals, it’s in workplaces, it’s everywhere now. And one part of that aspect is to get city councils in cities throughout the United States to pass resolutions opposed to the war. And you might say, “Well, what do they have to do with the foreign policy of the United States?” Well, those city councils have to meet the budgets for their cities.

WILLIAM PERKINS: We [New York residents] are suffering from a fiscal crisis of over $3 billion of budget.

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