Word: agran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Calling present military spending levels "absurd," Agran said such expenditures indicate America has a "Rip Van Winkle President and a Rip Van Winkle Congress which has just slept through the end of the Cold...
...Agran said that such a move, along with a multilateral weapons freeze and cuts in military research, would result in a "real peace dividend of 150 billion dollars a year...
...This money can and should be redirected at home," Agran continued. He went on to detail a precise economic agenda for the country. According to his program, 25 billion dollars a year would go directly to cities and towns to be used for such projects as public health clinics, libraries, police forces and improved transportation, he said...
...Agran disparaged President Bush's educational policies, attacking the "voodoo education reform of the so-called education president." He said 15 billion dollars of his proposed military cuts would go directly to school boards...
...remaining 110 billion dollars of this peace dividend would go to environmental protection programs, an improved national health program and deficit reduction, Agran said...