The following news from Harper's Weekly makes my head spin:
"President Barack Obama caved to pressure from Congress and military contractors and passed a $680,000,000,000 defense bill". (Weekly Review, HARPER'S WEEKLY, November 3, 2009).
If you convert the figure into Rupees, multiplying by 48, you would get a mind-boggling figure. When there is so much suffering, so much misery in this world, it is disgusting to see astronomical sums like this being spent on defense programs. And there are people, a lot of people, who make opulent and extravagant living out of human misery. What sort of a world is this?
Grateful thanks to Claire Gutierrez of Harper's Weekly and Harper's Weekly.
"President Barack Obama caved to pressure from Congress and military contractors and passed a $680,000,000,000 defense bill". (Weekly Review, HARPER'S WEEKLY, November 3, 2009).
If you convert the figure into Rupees, multiplying by 48, you would get a mind-boggling figure. When there is so much suffering, so much misery in this world, it is disgusting to see astronomical sums like this being spent on defense programs. And there are people, a lot of people, who make opulent and extravagant living out of human misery. What sort of a world is this?
Grateful thanks to Claire Gutierrez of Harper's Weekly and Harper's Weekly.
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