Security Spending Increases

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The paper argues that,while increased defense spending was supposedly implemented by President George W. Bush and Congress to increase economic growth for American citizens, in actuality, the increases merely funded war and corporate war industries. The paper argues that if even a fraction of those defense funds were spent to aid poor communities, including the homeless, hungry, uneducated, unemployed, elderly, and sick individuals, the living conditions of poor Americans would have been greatly improved. The paper concludes that the exorbitant funding amounts budgeted by the Bush administration for the defense industry only advanced the corporate sector of the country.

From the Paper:

"Some analysts and advisors have suggested the cutting of other federal social programs from the budget, of which has been accomplished in such agencies' funding as the Legal Aid Society. This funding, however, has adversely affected the population specifically the poor population who depended greatly upon the advocacy provided in such problems as domestic violence related divorce, social security disability representation, landlord and lease of housing laws, fair debt credit collection practices regulations adherence and other areas that the poor are under-represented in relation to and tragically, for the most part, completely without assistance in the form of legal advocacy in the largest part of the United States since such federal budget cuts have taken place."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Chaddock, Gail Russell. US spending surges to historic level. The Christian Science Monitor, December 8, 2003. Retrieved August 4, 2006 from http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1208/p01s02-uspo.html.
• Conetta, Carl & Knight, Charles. "Post-Cold War U Military Expenditure in the Context of World Spending Trends." Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing, January 1997, Memo 19. Online available at: http://www.comw.org/pda/bmemo10.htm.
• Green, Brian. "Five Myths of Defense Spending." Executive Memorandum #45, March 9, 1984. Online available at: http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/EM45.cfm.
• Higgs, Robert. "The Defense Budget Is Bigger Than You Think." The San Francisco Chronicle. 18 January 2004. Online available at: http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1253.
• Pincus, Walter. "Security Spending Increases in Iraq: Safety Concerns Grow as Handover Nears." Washington Post, May 30, 2004. Online available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1488-2004May29?language=printer.

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