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More encouragement.  If this can happen in Nebraska, .......

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From: NFPState at aol.com <NFPState at aol.com>
To: NFPState at aol.com <NFPState at aol.com>
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:29 AM
Subject: Tax Day Leafleting at the Post Office in Omaha


FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin Tuininga 402-453-0776 

Tax Day Leafleting at the Post Office 

On April 15, concerned citizens of Nebraska will be leafleting in front of the main Omaha Post Office at 1124 Pacific St. between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Leaflets containing information about where America's tax dollars are spent will be passed out to those entering and leaving the Post Office. Event organizers and participants will be available for interviews between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. 

According to the War Resisters League and the Center for Defense Information the US spends close to half of its federal tax dollars on the military. This analysis includes money spent on interest on the national debt created by military spending. 

In comparison to other countries, the US spends an extremely disproportionate amount of money for military purposes. According to the CDI, US military spending "is more than 26 times as large as the combined spending of the seven countries traditionally identified by the Pentagon as our most likely adversaries (Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria)."  These seven potential enemies and China and Russia combined spend $117 billion, which is only around 30% of U.S. military expenditures. 

Considering America's potential enemies, the dramatic increase in military spending sought by President Bush is extremely suspect. It appears that the administration may be taking advantage of the current political climate of fear to dole out corporate welfare to military contractors at a time when worldwide military spending is decreasing.   

The leafleting event, sponsored by Nebraskans for Peace, will be designed to inform people about the illogical and wasteful expenditure of our tax dollars on military might when much of the world is wallowing in poverty, despair and violence. The leaflets urge Nebraskans to tell our political leaders that the US should be at the forefront in reducing violence through humanitarian aid and economic development assistance as opposed to engaging in reactionary military campaigns in poverty stricken countries. Nebraskans for Peace believes that by spending just a portion of the current tax dollars earmarked for the military to reduce poverty, hunger, illiteracy etc., the US can reduce the chances that citizens of the world will draw attention to their grievances through violence. The current U.S. military budget combined with comparatively minuscule expenditures on humanitarian foreign aid exposes a near complete denial of global responsibility beyond a desire for economic and military dominance. 
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