Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴Nov 29, 2024

Mindboggling.

#NationalBudget #BudgetPriorities

Mojo ♻️May 13, 2024

Federal budgets are often centered on discussions of "inflation," the "economy," and "economic growth," but amidst these conversations, the deeper truth about our reliance on #nature often gets sidelined. Economists argue that without valuing the #environment, human activity on earth is unsustainable. While concepts like " #ecosystem services" have gained traction, they still fall short of acknowledging humans as part of a larger system that sustains all life. With climate change and #biodiversity loss worsening, a radical shift in #humanity 's relationship with ecosystems is needed. As we await the budget speech, it's crucial to remember the reality of climate change and its implications for our planet's future. #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalAwareness #BudgetPriorities #auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-12/albanese-government-fed-budget-scientists-warn-climate-change/103834644

How long can federal budgets keep ignoring a deeper truth?

How long can federal budgets keep ignoring a deeper truth about economics? Without a healthy natural world, human societies won't flourish.

ABC News
U.S. Politics in Real TimeJun 6, 2023

There’s Never a Debt Ceiling for the Military-Industrial Complex

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/debt-ceiling-military-spending/

#TheNation #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #DebtCeiling #MilitarySpending #USPolitics #BudgetPriorities #Politics #News

There’s Never a Debt Ceiling for the Military-Industrial Complex

While the Biden-McCarthy deal denies food to hungry people, it increases Pentagon spending by tens of billions.

The Nation
Anne CrawfordJan 6, 2023

Just saw someone hop the BART fare gates with a case of Heineken and a case of Corona.

#budgetpriorities #bart

bs2May 9, 2022
> .. #budgets, of course, are reflections of a government’s priorities. You can’t do everything.. so you have to make choices about what’s more important.. #PresidentBiden has asked for $33 billion more for mainly military aid.. to Ukraine. Contrast that with the $22 billion asked for for all of the #USA dealing with #COVID.. rejected by the #Republicans and some Democrats, far less than the $33 billion..
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/3/russia_us_escalate_likelihood_direct_clash
#GeorgeBeebe #DN! #Ukraine #Biden #BudgetPriorities
“A Very Dangerous Moment”: Russian & U.S. Escalation Raises Risk of Direct Military Clash in Ukraine

As President Biden seeks $33 billion more for Ukraine, we look at the dangers of U.S. military escalation with Medea Benjamin of CodePink and George Beebe of the Quincy Institute. He is the former head of Russia analysis at the CIA and a former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney. The massive spending in Ukraine that outweighs public funding to combat the coronavirus pandemic shows that “there are very few things that the Biden administration thinks are more important right now than defeating Russia, and I don’t think that accords, actually, with the priorities of the American people,” says Beebe. “To support the people of Ukraine and stop the fighting, we need not to pour billions of dollars of more weapons in, but to say, 'Negotiations now,'” says Benjamin.

Democracy Now!
bs2May 9, 2022
> .. #SocialMedia, #Twitter and other platforms.. encourage outrage.. what gets attention online, not people who are saying.. “Look, we have to look at this in a balanced way. It’s complicated. We need to understand the dynamics of all of this.” It doesn’t.. lend itself toward that kind of complexity and reasoned evidence. The people that get attention are the ones that scream the loudest.. provoke the most #outrage.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/3/russia_us_escalate_likelihood_direct_clash
#GeorgeBeebe #DN! #Ukraine #Biden #BudgetPriorities
“A Very Dangerous Moment”: Russian & U.S. Escalation Raises Risk of Direct Military Clash in Ukraine

As President Biden seeks $33 billion more for Ukraine, we look at the dangers of U.S. military escalation with Medea Benjamin of CodePink and George Beebe of the Quincy Institute. He is the former head of Russia analysis at the CIA and a former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney. The massive spending in Ukraine that outweighs public funding to combat the coronavirus pandemic shows that “there are very few things that the Biden administration thinks are more important right now than defeating Russia, and I don’t think that accords, actually, with the priorities of the American people,” says Beebe. “To support the people of Ukraine and stop the fighting, we need not to pour billions of dollars of more weapons in, but to say, 'Negotiations now,'” says Benjamin.

Democracy Now!