SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Peace Dividend
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Sociology 1 - lecture 7 october 20 war & peace (part 2) If present trends continue, four sorrows are certain to be visited on the us. Their cumulative impact guarantees that the us will cease . We begin to act upon less and less on national laws. Bankruptcy : we pay for a lot of things, we"re not broke; we"re being robbed by the military industrial complex . ~ 1. 2 trillion spent on military security: after wwii, america was everyone"s friend, but that is not the case anymore. , john feffer arms down . He has a plan to demilitarize (3 prong strategy: 1 of 3 reduce u. s. military spending. Begins with us because we are the biggest military spender: 2 of 3 reduce global arms sales/tax. See it as a peace dividend: 3 of 3 shift budget priorities to human development/incentives/conversion. Rewards countries if they shift their economic: film: this is where we take our stand.
