Seventy-eight percent of these funds went to states of military committee members. Waste of such vast proportions needs to be weighed against proposed Congressional cuts that would affect working families, women, the poor and students in Ohio and across the country. Pell Grants to 15,400 Ohio students in 1995 would also be cut. Cutting vital social and economic development programs while giving the Pentagon billions more than it requests are budget choices no sane citizen would make. General Electric alone, one of the largest military contractors in Ohio, was involved in fraudulent activity 16 times since 1990.
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