Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
- Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities is a nonprofit organization comprised of 700 buiness leaders. The campaign's goal is shift taxpayer money away from military programs to social programs like education, healthcare, alternative energies, and deficit reduction. The Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities is supported by distinguished retired generals, admirals and defense planners from Republican and Democratic administrations who have urged cuts in American military spending of $60 billion. Membership include prominent business leaders and former military officers and advisors like Lawrence Korb, retired Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, Ted Turner, Paul Newman, R. Warren Langley, Frank Spinney, and Stansfield Turner. Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities was founded by Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's.
Ben Cohen explains of the discretionary budget using [http://www.truemajority.com/oreos/ Oreo cookies] and the U.S.’s nuclear stockpile using [http://www.truemajority.org/bensbbs/ BB’s] .
Priorities
The organization claims that a $60 billion shift of budget priorities away from the Pentagon would provide the following benefitsFact|date=September 2007:
* "$10 billion annually funding programs for renewable energy and efficiency over 10 years would reduce America’s consumption of oil by 50%"
* "$10 billion each year for children’s healthcare and that would be enough to provide health care coverage for every one of the 9 million children in America who don’t have health insurance."
* "$15 billion each year, and prevent the deaths of all the 6 million kids that die of starvation every year by helping their countries grow more food for their people."
* "$10 billion annually on education and rebuild and modernize every school in America over 10 years."
* "$5 billion yearly for job training and provide training benefits for 250,000 Americans each year who get laid off."
* "Begin paying down the federal deficit with $10 billion annually."
External links
* [http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/farewell.htm President Dwight Eisenhower's Farewell Address]
* [http://www.sensiblepriorities.org/ Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities]
* [http://www.sensibleiowans.org/ Iowans for Sensible Priorities]
* [http://www.prioritiesnh.org/ Priorities New Hampshire]
* [http://TrueMajority.org/ True Majority]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YzPuCGShI8 Interview with Ben Cohen]
* [http://www.benjerry.com/our_company/about_us/our_history/benbio.cfm Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings, Inc. biography of Ben Cohen]
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