Nikki McCann Ramirez wrote an excellent article in Rolling Stone about how we Americans, through our elected government, could be spending our collective budget on positive changes for citizens and humanity instead of bombing and killing Iranians.
Surely, we all can agree that the following list of alternatives would have wide support:
- Health Care
- Child Care
- Medical Debt
- Foreign Aid
- Food Assistance
- Public Programming
- Preschool Development
- Aid for the Disabled
These are all things that help real people and can have lasting, positive impacts on our collective lives on this planet. We are well overdue on changing the way we think as Americans about how best to have impact, and it all starts by actually caring about each other and electing the right leaders.
THINGS THE MONEY FOR TRUMP’S IRAN WAR COULD HAVE PAID FOR THAT AREN’T … WAR