Chester County Peace Movement – Theft of War Protest

Host: Chester County Peace Movement

Come out with your signs and protest the federal government’s $54 billion increase for military spending!

Here are 8 things we could do with $54 billion instead:

• Cover 12 million people under the Affordable Care Act .
• Resettle 2.7 million refugees in the U.S. – enough for 32 years’ worth under the stepped-up Obama resettlement rate.
• Create nearly one million infrastructure jobs.
• Pay the salaries for half the elementary school teachers in the United States.
• Send 1.6 million students to college for a four-year degree – for free.
• Insure 15 million adults through Medicaid.
• Fund Meals on Wheels (threatened with cuts in Trump’s budget) for 7,180 years.
• Fund the entire Environmental Protection Agency (at current levels) for 6.6 years.
• https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2017/03/16/what-if-we-took-54-billion-pentagon-instead/

Join CCPM on May 27^th with signs stating what $54 billion could do instead of feeding the military budget!

“Every GUN that is made, every WARSHIP launched,every ROCKET fired signifies, in the final sense,

a theft from those who HUNGER, and are not fed,those who are COLD and not clothed.”

                                                                                                                      Dwight D. Eisenhower

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