The Cost of War
True Majority Action Center

Former admirals, generals and military officials agree that the U.S. can safely reduce the Pentagon budget by 15%. That's enough to do ALL of the following:

Provide basic health and food to the world's poor:	$12 billion
Rebuild America's public schools over 10 years:	$12 billion
Reduce class size for grades 1-3 to 15 students per class:	$11 billion
Reduce debts of impoverished nations:	$10 billion
Provide health insurance to all uninsured American kids:	$6 billion
Increase federal funding for clean energy and energy efficiency:	$6 billion
Public financing of all federal elections:	$1 billion
Fully fund Head Start:	$2 billion