Saturday, April 16, 2011

Military spending, 35% of budget

If we cut that back to 1/6th of our spending on military, we'd still be the top spender in the world [wikipedia.org].

If we cut 90%, we'd be the world's second-highest spender.

If we cut back 95%, we'd be 10th.
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If you actually take the time to expand the categories you'll see that a few lines items could easily be moved around

Federal military and civilian employee retirement and disability 4.6%
This is listed under health care, but a major portion of it could be in the Military personnel salaries and benefits.

The line item for Veterans Benefits 4.1%
could also just as easily have been a sub-paragraph of the Military budget.

So if you wanted to read it differently, Health Care would be at 19.7% and Nation Defense would be at 35%

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