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For every $10 spent on domestic projects, it is estimated $9.30 stays in the United States.
For every $10 spent on bombs and artillery in foreign lands, less than 33¢ is returned to the Treasury, and often we end up owing another $10!
$622.6BILLION 54% Education
Military
$72.8BILLION 6% Housing & Community
$68.5BILLION 6% Veteran’s Benefits
$75.4BILLION 7% Government
F-15 Fighter = $28.9 million F-15 Fleet = $33.4 billion
$69BILLION 6%
TRADING MILITARY FOR
INFRASTRUCTURE
Starting with the smaller scale of things — for the same departmental frill, like 10 F-15 Fighters (at $28.9 million a plane), the entire city of Flint, Michigan could drink un-leaded water once again.
For the price of an entire fleet of F-15s (1998 saw 1198 of them), $33.4 billion, we could refit every American home (125 million of them) with water conscious toilets and state-of-the-art plumbing, making America’s fresh water great again.
For the same budget allocation as 15 years of foreign military campaigns ($4.8 Trillion), our boys in blue overseas could help engineer and rebuild the nation’s water supplies, roadways, and energy portals — heralding safe, clean, healthy living for America’s children, making America’s future adults great again.
For the same price as one year of bombs in Bagdad or Aleppo, every American soldier could help his grandma plant a garden, refitting those dry hot homes in Phoenix and Las Vegas with home water reuse techniques guaranteed to replenish the aquifer, one flush at a time. PTSD would be eradicated, families would be unified. Picture peach trees from the bathtub drain, mak- ing the American Southwest garden great again.
Fresh Clean Water & New Pipes for 100,000 Citizens of Flint, Michigan = $289 million
Upgrading the Nation’s Water Supply for All 318,900,000 Americans = $921 billion
Like in board rooms where meetings of the bored employ a movement of salaried positions from one company priority to another, reclaiming America’s hardhats from munitions duty would be easy, and give every American worker a leg-up on the ground floor of successful-start-to- finish infrastructure projects. We did it in the ‘50s, we can make the doo-wop great again. CONTINUES NEXT EDITION ...
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