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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>More encouragement. If this can happen in
Nebraska, .......</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original Message-----</B><BR><B>From:
</B><A href="mailto:NFPState@aol.com">NFPState@aol.com</A> <<A
href="mailto:NFPState@aol.com">NFPState@aol.com</A>><BR><B>To: </B><A
href="mailto:NFPState@aol.com">NFPState@aol.com</A> <<A
href="mailto:NFPState@aol.com">NFPState@aol.com</A>><BR><B>Date:
</B>Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:29 AM<BR><B>Subject: </B>Tax Day Leafleting at
the Post Office in Omaha<BR><BR></DIV></FONT><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT
size=2>FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin Tuininga 402-453-0776 <BR><BR>Tax Day
Leafleting at the Post Office <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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.
<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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. <BR>### <BR><BR>Please
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