"If we had a trillion dollars," dream the youth of Bresee Community Center in Los Angeles, "we would buy materials to build homeless shelters, rehabilitation centers, skate parks and soccer fields."
Young people from the Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School in New York City would buy...
0 Comments | Posted April 12, 2010 | 10:38 AM
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Matt Ryan, the mayor of Binghamton, New York, is sick and tired of watching people in local communities “squabble over crumbs,” as he puts it, while so much local money pours into the Pentagon’s coffers and into America’s wars. He’s so sick and tired...
0 Comments | Posted February 28, 2010 | 5:22 PM
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Send up a flare! The 2011 federal budget has sprung some leaks in the midst of a storm. Not sure there's enough money for life rafts! Forget women and children first!
Buffeted by economic hard times, the 2,585-page, $3.8 trillion document is already taking on...
0 Comments | Posted December 17, 2009 | 11:13 AM
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$57,077.60. That’s what we’re paying per minute. Keep that in mind -- just for a minute or so.
After all, the surge is already on. By the end of December, the first 1,500 U.S. troops will have landed in Afghanistan, a nation roughly the...
0 Comments | Posted October 20, 2009 | 12:52 PM
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So you thought the Pentagon was already big enough? Well, what do you know, especially with the price of the American military slated to grow by at least 25% over the next decade?
Forget about the butter. It's bad for you anyway....
8 Comments | Posted April 13, 2012 | 3:47 PM