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Last updated 9-7-07

The cold, dead, bloody heart of America: Enormous profits for a few take priority over peace and security. Thereby impoverishing, injuring, shrinking, sterilizing, and killing average Americans while at the same time making those Americans the target of choice for the world's top terrorists

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"The current (2005) United States military budget is larger than the military budgets of the next fourteen biggest spenders combined"

-- Military budget of the United States, 1:50 PM EST 9-1-07; en.wikipedia.org

"Thanks to the Bush administration, the United States now spends about as much on its military as the rest of the world spends collectively, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. "

-- Billions in waste and not a dime's difference By Frida Berrigan; Aug 16, 2007; atimes.com

"There are 194 countries in the world today. Unless you don't count Taiwan…"

-- How Many Countries? — Infoplease.com; 4:54 PM EST, 9-1-07; Pearson Education

-- We're Number One! America Leads the World in War Profits By Frida Berrigan; May 22, 2007; alternet.org

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions"

-- US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

-- The War On Waste (possibly by Vince Gonzales); CBSNews.com; Jan. 29, 2002

-- Why is the USA so frequently the victim of resentment around the world? by Kryss Katsiavriades and Talaat Qureshi; accessible online 5-19-07

America established the precursors to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan beginning around 1985, providing money, weapons, and training specially designed to humiliate a superpower.

-- Fisking the "War on Terror" by Juan Cole; August 02, 2005

-- Hersh: U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Violent Al Qaeda-Linked Groups Posted by Nico February 25, 2007; citing The Redirection Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism? by Seymour M. Hersh March 5, 2007

-- Living in Fear for Helping America; September 1, 2007

"...American families live just one illness or accident away from complete financial collapse"

-- US Study: Medical Bills Main Culprit In Bankruptcies ["http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/042700-03.htm"] by Araminta Wordsworth; www.commondreams.org; October 09, 2002; originally published by the National Post in Canada, April 27, 2000

"For the majority of Americans, the question is not if they will experience poverty, but when"

-- Most Americans Experience Poverty Sometime In Adult Life, Study Finds; 7 APRIL 1999; Contact: Gerry Everding; gerry_everding@aismail.wustl.edu; 314-935-6375; Washington University in St. Louis

The overwhelming majority (90%) of young white male employees in USAmerica are destined to experience a smaller rise in income over their lives than their father's generation did

-- Ninety percent of young white male workers now doing worse than they would have 20 years ago ["http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-02/uow-npo022002.php"]; EurekAlert!; 20-Feb-2002; Contact: Joel Schwarz; joels@u.washington.edu; 206-543-2580; University of Washington

-- Whites join slide into poverty as US incomes fall ["http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,799164,00.html"] by Matthew Engel; September 26, 2002

-- Census U.S. Poverty Up, Income Down (washingtonpost.com) ["http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59613-2002Sep24.html"]

-- U.S. Poverty Up, Income Down ["http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20020924_841.html"]; ABC News

-- GROWING INCOME GAP SUGGESTS SHRINKING MIDDLE CLASS ["http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucas/20060507/cm_ucas/growingincomegapsuggestsshrinkingmiddleclass"] By Cynthia Tucker, May 6, 2006

"America's shameful poverty rate should lead every one to ask how we want to spend our tax dollars," said Miller, "on war or on education, health care, job training, and affordable housing?"

"It's a question of redirecting our resources away from war and tax breaks for the highest-income households, towards the common good."

-- U.S. Poverty Data Raise New Questions About Cost of War Haider Rizvi, OneWorld US Fri Aug 31, 2007

-- Hysterical shrinking America the guilty; accessible online 9-1-07

-- The astonishing decline of America; accessible online 9-1-07