American prisons produce 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet proof vests.
42% of people working in weapon’s plants do not even know they’re manufacturing weapons.
The Pentagon spends over $30 billion annually in research and development on deadlier weapons.
8 American children were killed in the 9/11 attacks, 1.5 million Iraqi and Afghani children were killed in the ensuing ‘war’ on terror.
If the U.S. cut its military budget by half ($400 billion), every single U.S. student can be sent to college for free.
Lockheed Martin produces $32 billion worth of weapons each year that mainly kill civilians in impoverished nations.
90% of the guns in the Mexican drug cartel wars are manufactured in the U.S.
The U.S. Central Bank with its loose monetary policy is responsible for driving up food prices around the world by 35%.
Only the dead see the end of war, in fact more Vietnam veterans killed themselves after the war than died in it.
$43 billion worth of unopened and unused food is thrown into landfill sites in the US every year, enough to end world hunger.
Even though Obama was hailed for using the expression ‘Fat Bankers’ his biggest campaign donor was the fattest cat of all, Goldman Sachs.
Americans and Europeans throw away enough edible food to feed every starving person in Africa.
Americans who work for Wal-Mart die 6 years younger than the average American.
Since September 2001, terrorism has killed 4300 civilians, the war on terror has killed more than 2 million civilians.
In 1968, 22 hours of work on minimum wage bought you an ounce of gold, in 2011, 200 hours of work were required to afford an ounce of gold.
100% of Bill Gates’ donations are tax write-offs, 94% of his donations go to paying staff and corporate research, 4% goes to needy people.
Despite the myth of social mobility, poor Americans have a slim chance, 0.25% of rising to the upper middle class.
The top 10 weapon manufacturers in the world have made a profit of $2.8 trillion from the ‘war’ on terror.
There are now more African American men in the prison system today, than the total number of African slaves in 1850.
Half of the people in the United States have only 0.5% of America’s stocks and bonds.
In 2010, General Electric, made $14.2 billion in profits, paid $0 in taxes, and collected $3.2 billion in tax benefits.
72% of people who kill themselves do so because they were never able to achieve the status of success.
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