This is a short film that I had to make for one of my classes in 2006. It is an anti-war film that promotes spending the money we spend on war on helping the poor and homeless. The movie shares a lot of shocking statistics that were current as of 2006 (they are probably a lot more shocking today). The movie’s goal was to show the public how much we spend on war versus how much we are spending on helping poor citizens in our country. It also shows that viewer that the United States has built a job making empire off of war and abandoning funding warfare to start funding education and help poor Americans would put millions of Americans out of jobs rendering them homeless and exacerbating the issue. While the United States should spend less on warfare and more on helping the citizens within its borders, it should also try to help people in departments that would be downsized in the military to find stable jobs so that it is not creating homeless while trying to address the current poor and homeless. Basically we need to start training teachers and social service workers now so that more jobs are being created than taken away.
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I never thought of the idea that ending war in order to spend money on the homeless would simply create more homelessness. It's interesting to think that in trying to find a solution to the problem, more problems will simply be created. It makes me think that the problems that war create are even more vast than originally anticipated.
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