U.S. Military Spending Is Out Of Control (Congress, salary, Afghanistan)
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#3 However, when you throw in all "off budget" items and other categories of "defense" spending not covered in the Pentagon budget you get a grand total of somewhere between $1.01 and $1.35 trillion spent on national defense in 2010.
My gosh I thought it was all the poor bringing the country down!
The US Military is a industry and War is proffitable. We would rather spend a huge chunk of our budget on the military rather than feeding & housing the homeless and the poor in this country. The priorities have been set.
The US Military is a industry and War is proffitable. We would rather spend a huge chunk of our budget on the military rather than feeding & housing the homeless and the poor in this country. The priorities have been set.
And if you read some of those wikileak cables you'll see that we're just giving away money and guns to anyone we want to make friends with..any kind of tribal chief in Afghanistan will be our friend for money and guns. And we're only too happy to oblige.
So that's millions/billions more that is NOT being reported.
The US Military is a industry and War is proffitable. We would rather spend a huge chunk of our budget on the military rather than feeding & housing the homeless and the poor in this country. The priorities have been set.
Sir, the homeless and poor cannot afford to send lobbyists to Washington.
They should serve along with our elected officials.
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