Sensible Budget Priorities

End the wasteful, failed war on terror which only increases terror blowback [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/manchester-attack-terrorism-isis-salman-abedi-end-middle-east-wars-extremism-grows-a7752181.html] while making only war profiteers and their Congressional tools wealthy; close our 700+ overseas military bases costing $100 billion a year; end 'special ops' in more than 130 countries [http://www.alternet.org/world/2016-us-special-operations-forces-deployed-138-nations-70-worlds-countries]; stop the $1 trillion nuclear weapons modernization which will make nuclear war more likely; audit the Pentagon; cut the Security/Surveillance State Budget by 60% from over $1 trillion a year to less than $400 billion; cut the Pentagon budget [54% of the total discretionary budget]; eliminate most of the 17 Intelligence Agencies [combined budget: more than $66 billion]; recover the taxes uncollected by being hidden in offshore tax havens and accounts [http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/40903-we-are-not-broke-trashing-the-austerity-lies].

Use these massive savings for Medicare for All; infrastructure repair and modernization; transition to non-fossil, non-nuclear, renewable and sustainable energy; a massive livable-wage jobs program in those infrastructure and renewable energy programs; affordable housing; elimination of poverty and homelessness; treatment, not incarceration, for drug dependency; free college; and elimination of student loan debt.