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Pentagon 101
Peace Action Education Fund National Priorities Project
Supported by the Colombe Foundation
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Where did your 2014 federal
income tax dollars go?
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2016 Federal Budget
What’s happening? What’s at stake?
How do we make the $?
How do we spend the $?
Who’s winning?
Who’s losing?
What can we do?
You and me Businesses
Federal Budget
State Budget Cities &
Towns
What’s at stake?
How do we spend
the $ in 2015?
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$577.5
$191
$91.7 $73.7 $63 $59 $54.9 $50 $46.6 $37.3
USA China Russia SaudiArabia
France Japan UK India Germany Brazil
Top 10 Countries Ranked by Military Spending, 2014
(dollars in billions)
Source: SIPRI
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11,200
15,100 16,800 17,200
26,700
Military Tax Cuts forPersonal
Consumption
Clean EnergyTechnology
Health Care Education
Jobs Created Per $1 Billion in Federal Investment
Source: PERI, 2011
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$0
$20
$40
$60
$80
$100
$120
$140
$160
$180
1976 1979 1982 1985 1988 1991 1994 1997 2000 2003 2006 2009 2012 2015
Veterans Affairs Funding, 1976-2015 (in billions of constant 2015 dollars)
Source: OMB
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Total Spending
Income Security
Health Care
3 tracks: local, state, federal
Organize grassroots coalitions to pass local resolutions to press your Congressional delegations to change national spending priorities and Move the Money!
Work with state legislators to pass state legislation to create defense industry transition commissions
Congressional pressure surrounding legislation
3 tracks: local, state, federal
Office of Economic Adjustment
– 2%-3% of city economy dependent on
defense contracts
– Plan “B” $ available to support advanced
planning
National Emergency Grants (Dept. of
Labor)
– Assist in retraining and placement of laid-off
defense workers
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