TIM KAINE IS WRONG ON THE SUPER COMMITTEE 18NOV11

While I support Tim Kaine's candidacy for the U.S. Senate I believe he is wrong on the super committee and the affect the mandatory defense budget cuts will have on the economy of the Commonwealth. This from PERI.....
"The simple truth is that, beyond war industry hype, military spending costs us jobs. According to the Political Economy Research Institute’s (PERI) 2009 study, when you compare it to other ways of spending the money, every $1 billion spent for military purposes costs us, at minimum, 3,222 jobs. At the upper end, war spending costs us 17,500 or more jobs per billion dollars. Military spending creates fewer jobs, both directly and indirectly, than every other kind of spending studied by PERI. So, given that we spend well in excess of $700 billion every year on war in this country, it’s fair to say that our obsession with war spending is sucking the life right out of our economy."
Read their report here
http://warcosts.com/2011/09/08/the-war-budget-is-burning-down-our-economy/
Gov Kaine needs to be concerned about the affect of cuts to the social safety net and the devastating impact these cuts will have on the poor, the working class and the middle class in Virginia and across the country. As President Eisenhower stated at the end of his administration
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." --Dwight D. Eisenhower

by Craig Carper

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Former Governor and now Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate Tim Kaine is urging the bipartisan Congressional supercommittee to reach a deficit reduction plan by its scheduled deadline next Wednesday. Craig Carper reports.