Cutting the Defense Budget is the Only Option
America isn’t currently designed to protect people at home.
A global pandemic, record-breaking joblessness, millions of Americans in poverty, ubiquitous misinformation, and just-in-time supply — Our current system is not designed to protect the American people against the new normal it will continue to face.
Scientists have warned us that warming temperatures will lead to more pandemics like the one caused by new pathogens like the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its strains. With misinformation, government efforts to stop the spread were deeply curtailed after nearly half the population refused to wear masks, and now it struggles to convince its population to take the vaccine. 497,000 people have died in the US alone since the pandemic began in 2019. That’s more deaths than WWII, the Korean, and Vietnam Wars combined.
It took one virus to bring the “greatest country in the world” to its knees. But this isn’t the only issue. As climate change becomes more and more an everyday issue for Americans across the country, like Texas freezing over, hundreds of thousands of acres burning on the West Coast, folks are facing a different enemy in their own backyard.
In 2011, Texas's electrical grid operators were warned that if the grid wasn’t winterized, the power was going to go out for millions of people. The “greatest country in the world” is not prepared to tackle its own issues at home.
This new Congress and White House administration have a responsibility to rethink our budget and focus on modernizing our failing infrastructure and healthcare system, and make education more accessible. We need a new New Deal designed to combat misinformation, climate change, and failing infrastructure. We need to build a New America if it plans to survive what is to come.
