In a recent article published in Truthout, Ellen Brown strongly argues the case for conversion of military spending. The heart of her argument is that military spending, our nation's deeply entrenched, primary jobs program, is woefully inefficient. As she states:
A 2007 study by Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier of the University of Massachusetts found that government investment in education creates twice as many jobs as investment in the military. Spending on personal consumption, health care, education, mass transit and construction for home weatherization and infrastructure repair all were found to create more jobs per $1 billon in expenditures than military spending does.
You can access the complete text of Brown's article at: http://www.truth-out.org/military-jobs-program-there-are-more-efficient-ways-stimulate-economy/1308752213
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