These past days we have witnessed a series of questions in the Senate of different political groups on cluster weapons and weapons export to Libya.
One problem we now open the eyes of what it means for our consciences the fact that they use these weapons, so destructive effect they have on a human body and civilian deaths in Libya. Began to tear their clothes!
Arms sales are a lucrative business for English companies in the field of defense, with daily turnover of four billion euros, placing us among the top ten exporting countries in the world. The year 2009 was the best year for the weapons industry, with revenues of 1,346 million. In the first half of 2010 and had sales of 730 million euros, that heralded an estimate of a new record of 1,600 million authorized arms exports.
was spent in 2010 on Earth $ 1.53 trillion for military spending. It is an unimaginable amount. To put this number in perspective, the World Food Summit estimated that 30,000 million a year can end hunger worldwide. That's the amount the world uses in military spending in a single week. There are many other issues that require financial investment, poverty, climate change, creation of employment. Only 10% reduction in international military spending could solve in a short time thousands of problems facing the planet.
The English Senate debate seemed to go over the legality or illegality of such sales have occurred three or more years ago the Government Libya. Something laudable ... but not enough.
is possible that all protest to the sale of weapons that continue to produce jobs but do not justify the end. One of them is to remove the percentage taken by the Government in these arms exports from our statement of income. Clear objectives or symbolically to the removal of a single euro of our taxes from our strong and forceful protest the sale of arms to poor countries or developing knowing the evil done and all our silence passed.
Instead of us out their hands to the head do something to change this situation.
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