Military v. Social Spending
Cal Berkeley professor Robert Reich just posted to X this quote from MLK: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
IN FACT, the federal government now spends 3.6 times more on social programs than national defense, a giant reversal since MLK made that statement in 1967. Yet, 84% of Democrats still believe the government spends more on defense than social programs.
