Senator Ed Markey has posted the article Sen. Markey & Rep. Blumenauer Introduce Bicameral Legislation to Cut $100 Billion from Wasteful Nuclear Weapons Budget on his Senate web site.
He has posted the following comments and summary on Facebook.
We are robbing America’s future to pay for unneeded weapons of the past. As we debate the budget & Republicans rally around devastating cuts to Medicare, Head Start and investments in research and science, it makes no sense to fund a bloated nuclear arsenal that does nothing to keep our nation safe in the 21st century. We should cure disease, not create new instruments of death. We should fund education, not annihilation. Read more about my new bill to cut $100 Billion from wasteful nuclear weapons budget
Liking his Facebook post, and adding supportive comments will let Senator Markey know that you appreciate his efforts in Congress, and you appreciate his new found activism on social media. I think using 21st century technology to communicate with us voters is a brilliant strategy for overcoming the media control by the oligarchs.
Markey’s comment that “We are robbing America’s future” in no way contradicts my statements that in a country that is sovereign in its own fiat currency, the government will never run out of money. What it can use up is resources and workers. We ought not to waste those things on useless weapons, or anything useless.