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Our budget on health care and ten percent must go to health care when in fact only six percent actually so thats like theres a big disconnect and its not like military health care of these are the only things you know i mean whats really disturbing is the idea of what people thought we spent on veterans or for veterans they guess the Veterans Benefits would account for almost eleven percent. Of mandatory federal mandatory spending neither it has to go to matter what actually the only outside about four percent of the actual have it and it was an agriculture in transportation that kind of amazed me because this mandatory spending they doubled the amount we spend on agriculture and transportation so from agriculture they thought it was you know its from four percent to eight percent they thought it was a present only for transportation they thought it was at least six and its actually only two per cent and to sit back and wonder whats happened this is where its happened this is why but t
They. The average for. They thought that the average for defense spending was about twenty six percent of the budget you know you look at it also you know about twenty six percent compared to fifty four percent of what we actually spend so like they kind of assume oh twenty six thats right you take a look at this graph they put up most taxpayers actually thought the militias military spending accounts for roughly twenty six percent of the discretionary budget spending not the the about fifty four percent it actually does most taxpayers probably going to twenty six a good number that we should be spending on them we started spending about not a fifty four percent during the year they also look at that they also thought that we spend about ten percent of our budget on health care right now you ten percent must go to health care when in fact only six percent actually so thats like this big disconnect and its not like military health care of these are the only things you know i mean whats
Projections is the power of life, the power of the biosphere. So we shouldnt dismiss it, but we need to heed that power and support that power. And now i can close with that quote that i really like. As i mentioned that the friend in texas who gets all their water from dew, she what she says is we can be the beavers on the landscape. We can be the restorers of the water cycle and all that that goes with it. So there we are. Its a choice we have, and i know its really, really hard, and sometimes i think that all of kind of the craziness that is going on right now, you know, politically and in all kinds of ways, that somehow thats like, its like a deep concern. Its almost like sparks out of some, like, very profound malaise and not knowing what to do. But i do feel very strongly that, a couple things, that what stands in our way is imagination , and also that its how we talk about these challenges. And thats why i make a point of lets kind of reframe Climate Change, okay . Were talking a
About the life of Edward Snowden is released today. What do you think it should president obama pardon Edward Snowden . If you think yes, call this number, 202 7488000. You dontnk not, if think the president should pardon Edward Snowden, call this number, 202 7488001. If not by phone, you can weigh in by social media. Our twitter handle is cspanwj , and Facebook Comments are coming in at facebook. Com cspan. Go to the website of the American Civil Liberties union, the aclu, you will see this posting by the executive director there, anthony romero. Obama should pardon Edward Snowden, and we are launching a campaign to make it happen and we have got a lot of help. Mr. Romero writes host they point out here at the aclu site that they are being joined in this campaign by Amnesty International and human arty havech, and they an impressive list of more than 100 former National Security officials, legal scholars, technology and business leaders, human rights activists, and artists on board. A