From Rep. Markey’s office
(NOTE: Pax Christi USA supported the letter to the Super Committee and helped mobilize members to get their representatives to sign on. Rep. Markey’s office included in its press release the following quote from Pax Christi USA in support of the letter: “Pax Christi USA lends its full support to Representative Markey’s proposal. As Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, has stated: ‘With developing needs across the globe far outpacing the resources being devoted to address them, the thought of pouring hundreds of billions of additional dollars into the world’s nuclear arsenals is nothing short of sinful.’ As Americans and as Catholics, we will not be a silent party to this Administration’s obscene nuclear weapons modernization policy, which crushes the poor and entrenches us in a suicidal and outdated deterrence posture.”)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Exactly 25 years ago today, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik to discuss how to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Today, Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) was joined by military leaders, national security experts, and health and nonproliferation advocates to call on the Super Committee to continue the unfinished work of that summit. Rep. Markey and 64 House members will send a letter this week to the Super Committee calling on the group to cut $200 billion from the nuclear weapons budget over the next decade before targeting programs for seniors, middle-class families and the most vulnerable.
“American needs another nuclear weapon like Lady Gaga needs another outfit,” said Rep. Markey, top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee and senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee. “With enough nuclear firepower to blow the world up 5 times over, the real choice is between continuing to spend billions on weapons we no longer need and cannot afford or funding programs that put us on the path to a more prosperous future. We need to stop pouring billions into these radioactive relics and start funding the cures and technologies that truly will secure our future.”
To build new generation tactical nuclear weapons could only result in new and greater wars than mankind has ever known before ! Spend the money to house and feed and clothe the poor and worker – not to annihilate them !
Frank & Kissy
And young men will sign to go off to war – young girls will find other lovers while their beaus ( remember this is modern time – when girls aren’t so faithful anymore ) are fighting for what ! Maybe only for that leg-up that the miltary offers the sons of the working-class ! and the average-joe citizen only gives-a-damn when the whole fiasco affects his job his economy ! Not caring one bit – for who dies – whether our young or the taliban !