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Poll: 76% of Americans favor cutting military spending

Press TV – July 17, 2012

The results of a new survey indicate that most Americans, from both Democratic and Republican congressional districts, support the reduction of the country’s military spending.

The result of the poll, published on July 16, indicated that 76 percent of Americans favored slashing of the defense budget, while only 20 percent approved of increasing the military spending.

The poll was conducted by the Program for Public Consultation (PPC), a newly-established joint program at the University of Maryland, US-based nonprofit investigative journalism organization, the Center for Public Integrity, and the Stimson Center, a nonprofit global security think tank.

According to Steven Kull, the director of the PPC, those respondents, who lived in Republican districts advised a 15-percent reduction in defense spending, while those from Democratic districts proposed an average 28-percent cut.

The poll further showed that the main reason behind the American citizens’ support for the cuts is their strong belief that a large amount of the military budget goes to waste.

The view is held by 80 percent of the participants in Republican districts and 86 percent of the respondents in Democratic districts, the study showed.

The soaring military spending comes despite the Obama administration’s cuts in public spending to compensate for the budget deficit.

The US has reportedly spent over USD one trillion in taxpayer money on its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.

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  1. This is further absolute proof positive that the “representative government” rules contrary to best will, wishes, and demands of their alleged “representatives” in the most critical national and international issues. War is a big one, the biggest in fact. And all are illegal War of Aggression for pillage, plunder, and occupation (yes it is a very bad-word) or imperialist plunder and genocide to be precise.

    Of course they make bogus claims to cover their true motives and special private interest, as with the Gulf of Tonkin deception, and later attempt of a false flag operation by trying to sink the USS Liberty by the US’ major partner in Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes, and Genocide; the Israelis; and again in NYC and a the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 aka 9/11.

    The inspiration that should spring for this evidence, that electoral politics is a scam, fraud, and hostile to democracy by design by the concentration of power in the hands of the few, and allowing wealth to be hideously concentrated, in order to make sure that the USA would be, in all but name, a fascist-imperialist empire; and it is!

    But, it is not legal, it is unconstitutional, it is clearly unrepresentative and treacherous. If ever you needed strong evidence that is it morally and constitutional necessitated to conduct national referendums on acts of congress, rulings of the courts, and the redistribution of wealth; you got right here!

    A National Referendum on the Federal Budget between what congress passed and what the public wants, is of a higher priority and importance than which handpicked punk the plutocracy you are given to vote for and against. It is time we eliminate “the middleman” and vote directly ourselves as a people as the sole makers of US Public Law and Public Policy. And that is constitutional in fact! It is our reserved Right in fact, and could not be a functional reality in the majority of the US state if it were unconstitutional for non-elected persons to make law by direct popular vote.

    It has a classical name, PURE DEMOCRACY.

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