Milwaukee revenues that could have been used to insure the protection of these natural resources instead were diverted to programs like the Rome Plow land clearance campaign which has stripped bare over 750.000 acres of Vietnam. an area the size of Rhode Island. and produced major soil erosion and flood damage in South Vietnam. In 1971. the Madison communitys contribution to the Indochina war budget equaled the budget for Department of Labor programs conducted in Madison. Madison revenues which might have gone for Job Corps programs to reduce unemployment were used instead for a futile war effort that has produced over 4 million homeless Indochinese refugees. These comparisons reveal that the Indochina war has cost Wisconsinon all levels. individual. community. and Statedearly. Yet this diversion of badly needed funds from such critical areas as the economy and the environment has gained us nothing militarily in the war.
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