PAUL OLSON
UNL EMERITUS PROFESSOR
We now have a $14 trillion debt, over half of which derives from military expenditures. This year we have a budget proposal of over $1 trillion for military and military-related costs ($700 billion for the Pentagon itself). The U.S. together with our allies—Britain and the European Union, India, Israel, Egypt, South Korea and our cohorts in the war on al Qaida—account for 75 percent of the world’s military spending. Our closest ‘non-ally,’ China, spends barely a sixth of what we spend.
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Paul Olson
UNL Emeritus Professor
We are poor. We now see the wreckage of Nebraska the Good Life… of America the Good Life. Too many of us cannot feed ourselves good food, educate ourselves well, or provide ourselves decent housing. The census says that one in six Americans are poor.
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PAUL OLSON
UNL EMERITUS PROFESSOR
Tomorrow morning I go in for cataract surgery. My other eye has been partially blinded by a stroke. Things fall apart in my body.
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Paul Olson
UNL Emeritus Professor
Swift in his “Digression on Madness” speaks bitterly of happiness as the “possession of being well-deceived; the serene peaceful state of being a fool among knaves.”
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Paul Olson
UNL Emeritus Professor
The ‘Goin’ Broke Paying for War’ message that NFP has been pushing the past two years (first with bumper stickers—and now with yard signs) is more than just catchy language. Both economically and culturally, it’s patent truth.
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