The amount of defense spending in the federal budget is truly mind-boggling, and, I think, pretty sickening too. This year alone we will be spending $680 billion on defense--not including the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. Meanwhile we are busy haggling over a health reform bill that will cost a mere $90 billion per year ($900 billion over a 10 year time frame).
I wonder if some day we will have a political culture that is capable of saying "no" to military spending.
Monday, November 2, 2009
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Wow. Pretty scary. I'll have to hold on to that statistic as a weapon against the hypocrisy of conservatives who make such an outcry against "big government spending," while supporting a further ratcheting up of America's military spending.
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