HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES-2010-077 DENIED - Resolution To End the Expenditure of the Public’s Tax Dollars by the U.S. Congress for Excessive and Unaffordable Warfare Funding~~. s - a~ ~ ~- a -a -1
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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
A RESOLUTION TO END THE EXPENDITURE OF THE PUBLIC'S
TAX DOLLARS BY THE U.S. CONGRESS FOR EXCESSIVE AND
UNAFFORDABLE WARFARE FUNDING
WHEREAS, the financial resources available for use by governments at the
local, county, state and federal levels in the United States are and must be
limited; and
WHEREAS, an inordinate level of military expenditure is being made by the U.S.
federal government for warfare in Afghanistan; and
WHEREAS, the people of Orange County, North Carolina are collectively paying
or becoming indebted for approximately 351 million dollars per year (with the
national average of approximately $2,600/per person) of their limited financia!
resources for such warfare which supplies no identified public benefits; and
WHEREAS, this warfare creates great and unnecessary harm to the people of
the nation of Afghanistan and to U.S. military personnel and their families; and
WHEREAS, educational services, infrastructure repairs, other essential public
services, and family and private-sector financing in Orange County and
throughout the State of~North Carolina have been substantially reduced in order
for an excessive portion of available financial resources to be diverted from the
constructive economy to unnecessary warfare;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE 1T RESOLVED THAT we, -the Orange County, North
Carolina Board of Commissioners, hereby request North Carolina's member of
the U.S. House of Representatives from the Fourth Congressional District and
the U.S. Senate representatives from the State of North Carolina oppose all
legislation brought before the U.S. Congress that provides further funding of the
U.S. warfare and U.S. military occupation of Afghanistan.
BE . IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Orange .County Board of
Commissioners also requests that these members of Congress take strong and
forceful action to influence the full Congress to terminate funding of these military
operations.
This the 16~' day of November 2010.
Valerie Foushee, Chair
Orange County Board of Commissioners