Feed military, starve Americans

We need to have a military for sure, but funding should be appropriate to the level of importance to the average American citizen. Today we see a disproportionate amount of funding shunted off to the military while many Americans go hungry and jobless and homeless. Money spent on the military creates jobs at a much slower rate than money invested in education, clean energy, and health care.

Chasing goat herders in the mountains of Afghanistan is hardly worth a billion dollars a day when that same money could be used to create jobs right here at home.

Military personnel seem to be more interested in having adventuresome careers for themselves rather than letting our politicians solve real problems for the average American.

Now there is talk of dismantling Social Security and Medicare so that we can waste even more money on the military while it launches preemptive strike after meaningless preemptive strike. These attempts to feed the military by starving the American people represent a loss of purpose, meaning, direction, from what was intended by the founding fathers.

The military is supposed to defend the American people, not starve them to death.

As far as military on campus and high schools, equal time should be given to peace activists who can propose alternative solutions for career development and education.

Gary Amstutz

Lake isabella