Each new plane will cost the government $750 million that could go to housing, health care or education.
“This ominous death machine, with its price tag of $750 million a pop, brings huge profits to Northrop Grumman but takes our society one more step down the road of spiritual death,” Benjamin added, referring to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 anti-war
, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” in which the civil rights leader called the U.S. government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”on Wednesday: “Hey, how’s the good old USA doing on free healthcare, eliminating poverty, and accessible education for all? What? Oh, I see. They have a new stealth bomber. OK. And their citizens are good with that trade-off?”
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