Ben Cohen's Dessert - Another World is Possible Vol 1 with Shane Claiborne

"ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: VOL 1 WAR" DVD Available at Amazon or at http://awip.us
Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream presents this delicious take on US spending with the fine folks of True Majority. Ben was kind enough to allow us to share this with you all on the DVD.

Directed by Jamie Moffett and Shane Cliaborne

Additional Volumes and movies you might be interested in:
Another World is Possible Vol II - Poverty http://awip.us
Another World is Possible Vol III - Creation http://awip.us
The Ordinary Radicals - http://theordinaryradicals.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• military
• us
• economy
• peace
• spending
• animation

[ChocolatePoop1301]

@YouTubricant But it is.

[YouTubricant]

I wish so badly that it were actually that simple.

[fw190bk1]

Let me tell you something BEN. We pay for our own schools via a property tax and some money from the state. The reason is we do not want the Feds to dictate what we teach our children. i.e. "If you don't do what we say, you will not get the money honey". The Dept of Education is a bone Jimmy Carter gave the teachers union for helping him get elected. Get rid of it and so many other useless Federal Depts. Take your "cookie" and stick it in your ice cream.

[Bobryuu]

Why is the flashing dot for North Korea in Kamchatka?

[IDisposable]

The schools don't work because parents expect them to be day care not because they are broke (they're not)

[funfsinn14]

I think I would just eat all the cookies...get the metaphor?

[nikflorida]

What does per capita GDP have to do with military spending? Let's not needlessly complicate things in order to obfuscate the simple truth. The per capita GDP in the US is indeed about 6x as much as in China, but the POPULATION of China is about 4x as much as the US, and their military spending is 1/8. so, adjusted for GDP and population, they spend about 1/6 as much as the US, instead of 1/8. Similar math can be done for Russia (the USSR, remember, doesn't even EXIST any more)

[JohnFGoforth]

@ProvidenceAvenue Excellent points

[JohnFGoforth]

I agree with ProvidenceAvenue. A major flaw of this is comparing our military to others on the basis of dollars only. In China, where GDP per capita is around $6500 per year and our GDP is around $46000 They can afford about of 7 soldiers to our 1. The other problem is equating funding to outcomes for example- We've actually damaged many African economies with our world hunger humanitarian aid programs by decreasing the local food prices, forcing farmers out of business.

[ProvidenceAvenue]

Peace exists in many parts of the world BECAUSE of the size of our military. We stand against injustice and help with peace keeping all over the world. Those other countries don't spend as much on military, like North Korea for instance, where you serve in the military to eat. They have nukes that could wipe out entire US cities.