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The
federal
government's
2021
discretionary
budget
includes
an
unprecedented
740
billion
dollars
to
be
allocated
to
national
defense,
while
local
governments
cannot
set
the
military
budget.
This
bloated
spending
most
affects
the
people
local
governments
serve,
so
we
must
act
at
a
local
level
during
covid.
The
need
for
services
to
meet
our
needs
has
become
clearer
and
clearer,
as
more
people
are
struggling
to
make
ends.
Meet
people
in
pittsburgh
desperately
need
money
for
programs
like
snap
to
buy
food.
Social
security
to
support
the
elderly
and
disabled
housing.
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B
D
Good
afternoon
honorable
council
persons,
I
would
like
to
speak
in
favor
of
the
council
adopting
a
move,
the
money
resolution.
My
name
is
paul.
Dordal
and
I've
been
a
resident
and
worker
in
pittsburgh.
Since
2008,
I'm
an
iraq
war
veteran
and
a
13-year
veteran
of
the
united
states
army,
I've
served
my
country
honorably
and
was
awarded
the
bronze
star
medal
for
my
service
in
iraq.
D
I
believe
that
our
country
now
has
the
unique
opportunity
to
lead
the
world
and
truly
be
exceptional,
yet
not
by
continuing
to
use
empty
rhetoric,
but
in
actual
practice
I
had
an
epiphany
in
iraq.
I
realized
that
the
people
of
iraq
were
beautiful
people
who
were
not
our
enemies
and
that
we,
the
united
states,
had
destroyed
their
country
under
false
pretenses.
D
In
recent
years,
I've
seen
more
money
spent
on
the
us
military
than
even
the
generals
in
the
pentagon
are
asking
for.
I've
read
studies
that
show
that
more
americans,
like
me,
do
not
believe
we
should
have
800
plus
foreign
military
bases
around
the
world
or
spend
trillions
of
dollars
to
be
the
policeman
of
the
world
when
no
one
really
is
asking
us
to
do
so.
D
D
Yet
the
administration
is
desiring
to
modernize
our
nuclear
weapon
arsenal,
even
after
the
united
nations
have
declared
them
illegal
on
january
twenty.
Second,
two
thousand
twenty
one.
We
continue
to
use
immoral
drones
that
kill
innocent
people.
We
illegally
attack
sovereign
nations
without
a
declaration
of
war.
These
offensive
actions
have
not
made
the
world
safer
and
have
nothing
to
do
with
the
abnormal
reasons
I
joined
the
united
states
army
if
covet
has
taught
us
anything.
It
should
be
that
our
budget
priorities
are
all
wrong
and
must
change.
D
E
Most
of
the
following
information
that
I'm
going
to
use
in
the
next
minute
comes
from
the
institute
of
the
university
of
brown,
whose
mission
is
to
research,
the
cost
of
war.
The
estimates
of
the
direct
violence
deaths
in
the
last
two
decades
is
801
000..
The
price
of
these
wars
is
6.4
trillion
the
defense
budget
funds
800
bases
in
70
different
countries.
E
Military
budget
spends
more
than
the
next
10
defense
spending
countries
combined
over
three
times
the
defense
budget
of
china.
10
times
the
amount
of
russia.
China
has
one
foreign
base.
Russia
has
20.
the
move.
The
money
resolution
offered
today
simply
asked
city
council
and
the
mayor
to
write
a
letter
of
support
to
the
pa
congressional
delegation
to
support
and
advocate
for
the
the
effort
to
cut
the
defense
budget
by
10
percent
and
move
these
billions
into
efforts
to
improve
the
quality
of
lives
in
this
country.
E
E
E
It
has
been
40
years
since
the
collapse
of
the
industry
and
local
governments
struggled
to
fill
potholes,
yet
alone
paved
streets
each
and
every
year,
over
those
40
years
in
these
towns
and
in
the
city,
generations
of
students
have
suffered
from
education
programs
necessarily
cut
their
districts
as
both
local
city
and
town
and
state
officials.
Fight
for
funding,
while
simultaneously
there,
while
simultaneously
increases
in
the
federal
budget
for
more
bombs
bases
and
wars,
goes
on
year
after
year,
with,
with
the
release
of
the
streets
to
be
paved
in
the
city.
F
F
The
green
party
of
allegheny
county
supports
the
move,
the
money
campaign,
because
it
emphasizes
three
out
of
four
of
our
key
value
out
of
our
pillars:
those
of
democracy,
social
justice
and
peace.
It's
a
cliche,
but
our
repeated
budgets
are
moral
documents
you're
supposed
to
be
democratically
determined
by
our
society.
F
F
The
move
the
money
campaign
is
also
a
social
justice
issue,
because
there
are
so
many
human
needs
that
have
their
funding
that
has
their
that
have
their
funding
eaten
up
by
military
spending.
We
could
be
spending
that
money
on
housing
on
public
transit
on
health
care.
I
know
often
times
when
we
talk
about
these
issues
at
the
local
level.
We
talk
about
how
federal
funding
needs
to
come,
to
support
these
initiatives
and
but
we're
talking
about
the
federal,
the
federal
budget
right
now.
The
moving
move.
F
The
money
campaign
is
also
a
a
peace
issue.
Even
if
our
military
presence
around
the
world
was
cost
free,
we
would
support
reducing
our
troop
counts
around
the
world.
We
have
the
largest
military
in
the
world
and
we
oppress
other
nations
because
of
it.
The
peace
issue
is
also
really
personal
to
me.
My
father
was
forced
to
go
to
vietnam
to
fight
someone
else's
war.
He
wasn't
able
to
dodge
the
draft,
like
so
many
others,
and
it
seriously
impacted
his
life.
F
The
life
of
our
family
and
our
our
military
presence
impacted
the
lives
of
so
many
people
around
the
world
every
day.
So
again,
we
would
like
to
see
this
money
moved
away
from
the
military
and
towards
human
needs,
including
housing,
public
transit
and
health
care.
F
The
resolution
calls
for
transparency
and
how
our
money
is
is
funneled
into
the
military,
and
I
know
the
city,
council
and
the
mayor
has
really
been
prioritizing
transparency,
so
this
is
something
that
city
council
has
passed
into
law
years
ago
and
we're
asking
for
you
guys
to
follow
through
with
that.
F
I
think
pittsburgh
residents
have
a
right
to
know
how
much
of
their
money
is
going
to
fund
things
that
pittsburgh
residents
don't
agree
with,
and
that
information
will
allow
us
to
apply
pressure
so
that
the
monies
actually
the
expenditures
match
our
our
moral
desires.
All
right.
Thank.
F
G
G
Okay,
hello,
my
name
is
matt
nemeth,
I
am
a
resident
of
mccandless,
but
I
frequently
work
and
recreate
within
the
city
of
pittsburgh.
I
am
a
member
of
the
green
party
of
allegheny
county
and
they
are
a
co-sponsor
of
this
move.
The
money
campaign,
as
jay
previously
said.
G
I
think
we
all
know
that
our
country
has
a
very
uncomfortable
problem
with
mass
poverty
and
if
you
didn't
know
that
I'm
going
to
briefly
describe
the
size
of
this
humanitarian
crisis
before
the
pandemic,
there
are
about
40
million
americans
living
in
poverty.
The
latest
numbers
now
put
that
over
50
million
and
those
numbers
are
huge
right,
they're
like
impossible
for
us
to
even
imagine
so.
Let
me
just
try
to
put
those
into
context
before
the
pandemic.
The
number
of
extremely
poor
people
in
our
country
was
equivalent
to
the
entire
population
of
canada.
G
It
is
now
akin
to
the
entire
population
of
south
korea
or
australia.
Two
times
over,
these
people
are
real
they're
struggling
and
a
vast
majority
of
them
have
been
living
in
this
state
for
years,
and
I'm
talking
about
poverty,
because
it
is
central
to
understanding
why
our
military
budget
is
both
unethical
and
immoral.
G
At
the
same
time
that
this
immense
amount
of
people
are
struggling
to
provide
basic
necessities
for
themselves
and
their
family
members,
the
american
federal
government
is
spending
hundreds
of
millions
of
dollars
every
single
year
on
the
department
of
defense,
dod
spending
was
increased
under
every
administration
of
the
21st
century.
Thus
far
now
president
biden
is
recommending
an
increase
in
spending
just
a
couple
months
ago,
and
it
sounds
like
fantasy,
but
tragically
it's
not.
G
When
is
this
going
to
end,
or
maybe
a
better
question
is
how
is
this
going
to
end
we're
talking
about
massive
amounts
of
money
that
could
be
used
toward
ending
mass
poverty
transition,
transitioning
to
net
zero
carbon
emissions
by
2030
and
preparing
communities
for
climate
change?
Instead,
the
government
is
investing
in
state-of-the-art
efforts
to
kill
and
threaten
people
around
the
world.
G
I
Okay,
my
name
is
edith
bell.
I
live
at
nine
3890
bureau
of
war
apartment
311.
I
am
a
long-time
member
of
the
women's
international
league
for
peace
and
freedom.
We
have
been
fighting
not
fighting
war,
fighting
to
prevent
wars
and
stop
wars
for
over
a
hundred
years,
starting
with
world
war.
One-
and
at
this
point,
since
the
governments
of
the
world
do
not
see
the
immorality
of
wars,
we're
trying
to
make
them
understand
the
financial
cost.
I
I
About
this
year,
about
750
billion
dollars
goes
for
the
so-called
defense,
it's
more
like,
like
form
wars
and
preparations
for
wars.
Well,
roughly
10
percent
of
the
u.s
population
lives
in
poverty.
I
We
are
asking
and
we're
joining
the
coalition
to
cut,
to
ask
congress
to
cut
military
spending
and.
I
I
Right
now,
president
biden
has
proposed
this
big
budget
and
nobody
knows
how
to
pay
or
they're
arguing
how
to
pay
for
it.
Well,
the
money
is
right
there
in
the
military
budget,
cut
the
military
budget
by
10
and
it
easily
can
pay
for
all
that.
I
B
J
K
Yes,
can
you
hear
me.
K
K
It
could
have
provided
more
than
1.2
million
households
with
wind
power
for
one
year
or
he
could
have
paid
for
8
000
elementary
school
teachers
for
one
year.
Other
speakers
before
me
already
touched
on
how
huge
how
insane
the
u.s
military
budget
is,
as
it
is
more
than
the
next
10
largest
military
budgets
summed
up
so
then
we
know
that
this
is
not
about
the
safety
or
the
concern
for
security
keeping
this
country
safe.
We
know
that
this
is
simply
a
mechanism.
This
is
simply
about
funneling
public
funds
into
private
hands.
K
So
it's
not
about
human
rights
either,
and
I
want
to
end
by
noting
that
you
are
elected
officials
and
what
a
better,
how
better
could
it
be
to
represent
the
will
of
the
people
by
actually
passing
this
resolution
and
and
pushing
this
this
pressure
up
to
the
congress,
because,
as
testified
by
so
many
before
me
and
myself,
people
want
money
moved
from
war
and
people
want
that
money
to
be
deplored
for
taking
care
of
public
needs,
both
national
locally
nationally
and
internationally.
Thank
you.
K
L
Great,
my
name
is
greg
gottles.
I
live
at
7121,
penn
avenue
in
point
breeze,
I'm
speaking
in
favor
of
the
move,
the
money
resolution
in
1945,
the
united
states,
attained
a
status,
a
nuclear
status
that
they
maintained
a
superiority.
They
maintained.
We,
our
country,
maintained
for
a
long
time
by
the
60s.
D
L
That
the
theory
was
mutual
assured
destruction
that
we
could
stave
off
any
kind
of
attack.
No
enemy
was
ready
to
attack
this
country
or
threaten
this
country.
There
was
no
existential
threat
to
this
country
since
that
time,
and
there
hasn't
been
anything
close
to
that
since
nonetheless,
the
military
budget
kept
climbing
and
climbing
and
climbing
climbing.
For
for
decades,
the
cold
war
ended
in
1991
and
the
military
budget
kept
climbing
and
climbing
and
climbing
for
decades.
L
L
Nonetheless,
our
leadership,
our
federal
leadership,
has
either
through
intimidation
or
lack
of
integrity
or
courage
has
been
enslaved
really
by
the
so-called
military-industrial
complex.
So
this
budget
grows
and
grows
and
grows
without
ending
and
we
lead
the
arms
race.
We
don't
follow
the
arms
race,
we
don't
respond
to
others.
We
have
a
weapon
system
and
development
before
the
last
weapon
system
that
we
have
has
been
implemented
and
too
many
of
them
become
boondoggles
and
too
many
of
them
become
unsuccessful,
even
as
weapon
systems.
So
we
move
on
to
the
next
one.
This
has.
I
L
End
this
has
to
end
it
it.
It
doesn't
serve
us
well,
it
doesn't
serve
the
american
people.
Well,
it
doesn't
serve
the
world.
Well,
now,
I'm
quoting
from
the
wall
street
journal,
the
number
of
people
living
in
extreme
poverty
or
less
than
a
dollar.
Ninety
a
day
is
expected
to
rise
by
as
many
as
39
million
individuals
this
year
after
climbing
by
124
million
in
2020,
it's
the
first
increase
since
the
1990s.
L
L
It's
really
an
outrage
when
you
think
about
the
kind
of
money
that
we
spend
allegedly
for
defense
for
defense.
If
there's
hostility
out
there,
wouldn't
it
be
better
to
devote
this
money
to
making
peace
through
helping
these
people
that
are
living
on
a
dollar
ninety
a
day.
Isn't
that
a
more
sensible
approach
for
our
foreign
policy?
I'm
hoping
it's
great
to
see
our
city
council
listening
to
us
as
we
we
say
these
things
today,
but
I'm
hoping
they
will
show
the.
H
J
You
councilman,
I
don't
really
have
any
comments
today.
I've
got
notes
in
front
of
me
and
I
appreciate
the
callers
reaching
out.
They've
also
been
in
contact
with
my
office,
and
I
appreciate
all
of
their
their
organization
they're
being
very
thorough
and
following
through.
So
I
really
appreciate
that.
H
Thanks
councilwoman,
okay,
with
that,
we
will
then
entertain
a
motion
to
adjourn
the
public
hearing.