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OccamsRazor04
Here's a source.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Feel free to argue with Zaphod that the AirForce has way more money than it needs.
Almost 60% of the TOTAL budget is Medicare/Medicaid and social security, labor, and unemployment.
There is a breakdown.
OccamsRazor04
That has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. The fact is our budget is not all in our military. People think that. People have brought it up on this thread. MOST of our money goes into social spending.
OccamsRazor04
How about we compare apples to apples. The US is not even the top spending in the military, and we are not spending much more than other countries. This graph is 2010. 2013 spending went down about 10% I think.
1104light
OccamsRazor04
Here's a source.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Feel free to argue with Zaphod that the AirForce has way more money than it needs.
Almost 60% of the TOTAL budget is Medicare/Medicaid and social security, labor, and unemployment.
There is a breakdown.
According to your source, quite a lot of money is going to the military.
Did you even read it?
Military spending is not by any means LOW.
I specifically asked, compared to what?
You go on about things having to be offed.
If I have a 10 million dollar plot of land and end up having to sell 1 million of it off, would you say my land holdings are suffering?
1104light
OccamsRazor04
How about we compare apples to apples. The US is not even the top spending in the military, and we are not spending much more than other countries. This graph is 2010. 2013 spending went down about 10% I think.
Wrabbit actually supplied sources that say you are wrong.
Where are your sources?
menneni
reply to post by OccamsRazor04
Please take a minute and think about your post.
You are talking about feeding the dying children. Then you go to talk about TAX-dollars? Are you frigging serious? Newsflash (idiot), those tax dollars are none of your concern. You should take your head out of analandand you could see that too. Sweet, isn't it?
I can tell you right on, you put that kind of attitude to my face IRL, i go ballistic. Your post was overloaded with stupidity.
Sorry to break you the truth. But you will get over this, in time.
So you think America should feed every child in China? Africa? Every child around the world? No? Why not? Why are they less deserving?
bout One Week of US Military Spending Would Wipe Out World Hunger
~Lucidity
Without the jobs that the MIC provides, wouldn't there be a lot more hungry people? How many jobs would that be? And how many more unemployed? Seems we've placed ourselves into a corner in a way and given up our power somehow. Just playing devil's advocate here, but isn't this a catch-22?
As for the concept of being against feeding people, any people for any reason, or making a political or divisive issue out of it, especially when you are sitting in a position of relative (and temporary) power and your own belly is fat, that's just fundamentally wrong...and inhuman.
edit on 9/22/2013 by ~Lucidity because: grammar OCD
Wrabbit2000
reply to post by OccamsRazor04
What are you even talking about?? The data isn't right because it's 2010?
Wrabbit2000
reply to post by OccamsRazor04
Well, your link there is broken and I wasn't going to pile on by attacking the use of GDP % to the apparent exclusion of what the dollars literally represent in buying power and the difference on that level.
However, we can go with GDP. That works fine for me. Let do use GDP.
US Defense Spending for 2013
We can get into the White House/OMB reports that site bases it's data from...but it's been right that I've seen so far. Leaving off what the VA runs, it shows 660 Billion dollars for US defense spending in 2013.
Now.. About that GDP.... Indeed...
190 Nations of the world, ranked by Annual GDP
According to that list, if the Pentagon was it's own nation? It would displace Switzerland as #19 for the largest national GDP's on Earth. 19...out of 190. Now anyone who says the US military is under-funded is flat out being disingenuous. I can't see any other way of that being explained when the numbers are clear, publicly available, and as stark as these are for contrast.
...or to put it another way, U.S. Defense spending, by itself, is above the total gross domestic product of 171 other nations we share this planet with. Now what is wrong with THIS picture?edit on 22-9-2013 by Wrabbit2000 because: (no reason given)
mikell
I recently learned the new definition of illegal. I has an arson fire and hat the person who set it clearly on tape. The police told me they couldn't do anything because they didn't witness the crime. I told him I won't bother calling again and told him I have a backhoe