Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities

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Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities is a nonprofit organization comprised of 700 buiness leaders. The campaign's goal is shift tax payers money away from military programs to social programs like education, healthcare, alternative energies, and deficit reduction. The Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities is supported by distinguished retired generals, admirals and defense planners from Republican and Democratic administrations who have urged cuts in American military spending of $60 billion. Membership include prominent business leaders and former military officers and advisors like Lawrence Korb, retired Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, Ted Turner, Paul Newman, R. Warren Langley, Frank Spinney, and Stansfield Turner. Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities was founded by Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's.

Ben Cohen explains of the discretionary budget using Oreo cookies and the U.S.’s nuclear stockpile using BB’s.

[edit] Following The Words of President Dwight Eisenhower

Business Leaders For Sensible Priorities mission is to heed the warnings of President Dwight Eisenhower made during his Farewell Address to nation on January 17, 1961.

"we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex... Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." -- President Dwight Eisenhower, January 17, 1961

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists and the hopes of its children. ” -- President Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

[edit] Priorities

$60 Billion Shift Would Provide:

- $10 billion annually funding programs for renewable energy and efficiency over 10 years would reduce America’s consumption of oil by 50%!
- $10 billion each year for children’s healthcare and that would be enough to provide health care coverage for every one of the 9 million children in America who don’t have health insurance.
- $15 billion each year, and prevent the deaths of all the 6 million kids that die of starvation every year by helping their countries grow more food for their people.
- $ 10 billion annually on education and rebuild and modernize every school in America over 10 years.
- $5 billion yearly for job training and provide training benefits for 250,000 Americans each year who get laid off.
- Begin paying down the federal deficit with $10 billion annually.
- ALL at NO ADDITIONAL TAXPAYER EXPENSE