Small-City Mayor Takes on the Pentagon--War Spending Should Be Spent on Americans, Not on Killing Afghans

Submitted by Anna on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 22:32

Jo Comerford
April 13, 2010

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We don’t just have a revenue problem in this country—we have a values and priorities problem.

Published by Alternet.org.

Matt Ryan, the mayor of Binghamton, New York, is sick and tired of watching people in local communities “squabble over crumbs,” as he puts it, while so much local money pours into the Pentagon’s coffers and into America’s wars. He’s so sick and tired of it, in fact, that, urged on by local residents, he’s decided to do something about it. He’s planning to be the first mayor in the United States to decorate the façade of City Hall with a large, digital “cost of war” counter, funded entirely by private contributions.

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