Defund the Defense Dept. (Offense Dept.?)

    We are hearing a great deal today about efforts to defund or transfer money from police departments to community services that may be more effective in dealing with many community needs than the police.   One other area that should also be examined today is the number of dollars spent on our Defense Department to keep our citizens safe from foreign threats. Other countries are able to meet the important needs of their citizens better than the United States because they don't spend the amount of money we do on their militaries.  This is one reason why we don't have universal health care or universal free college or universal childcare.  It's our choice.



Our underfunded public health system.

NIH funding cut during a pandemic.

Need for infrastructure