US govt. protecting interest of Ëœthe eliteâ„¢
Don DeBar, an American anti-war Activist and radio host, says the US government spends large amounts of money on military activities to protect the interests of the elite.
Å“The purpose of the US government is to protect the interest of the elite that control the US government, the global economic interests under condition of imperialism,” DeBar said on Saturday.
The US government spends Å“about a quarter” of all its funds on military activities while priorities for the American people are employment, housing, healthcare and education, said Debar in an interview. Å“The priorities seem very, very inverted.”
On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year 2014 that allots $526.8 billion for the Pentagon’s budget and $80 billion for the war in Afghanistan”totaling nearly $607 billion in defense-related spending.
This is nearly $30 billion more than was agreed to in the bipartisan federal budget deal that was also signed by Obama on Thursday.
Critics have criticized the act as a military handout at a time of great human need.
“The bill is a massive spending program on the war economy with no justification in a time of austerity and limited security threats,” writes D.S. Wright for FiredogLake.
“Washington’s spending priorities are upside down: continuing to fund the Afghan war and the taxpayer ripoff F-35 warplane while cutting funding for human needs,” said Robert Naiman, policy director for Just Foreign Policy, in an interview with Common Dreams.
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Source: Press TV