Reader's View: Military taking resources from other priorities

Reader's View: Military taking resources from other priorities

The U.S. outspends all other countries on military expenditures, according to Brown University. The Brookings Institute put the cost of the Department of Defense at $950 billion, with the cost by decade’s end expected to be $1 trillion. How much money is that? Six days of military spending would fund the free school lunch program for a year, a program that feeds about 21.4 million children. Another way to look at it is, “Each dollar allocated to…