They Forever Go Together
Ben Cohen, famed co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, is a truly awesome dude. He’s a social activist on steroids. Few people are aware that Cohen is also the founder of True Majority, as well as a board member of Business Leaders For Sensible Priorities. Both these organizations promote reducing the obscene amount of federal funding currently being lavished upon the Pentagon for war and military operations. The US military budget sucks over half the entire federal budget each and every year. Your tax dollars at work.
Cohen has created a nifty little video that illustrates how a small reallocation of funds, wherein a tiny fraction of the military budget is reapportioned to much needed health, education, environmental and human services programs, would all but solve many of our current, social crisis issues.
Watch as Cohen explains, in Oreo Cookie terms, how this plan would work:
One cookie equals 10 billion dollars.
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