A billion here and billion there - Before you know it- A Trillion $
Spending on the Department of Defense alone is already well in excess of half a trillion dollars a year and counting. Adjusted for inflation, that means it’s higher than at the height of Pres. Ronald Reagan’s massive buildup of the 1980s and is now nearing the post-World War II funding peak.
And yet that’s barely half the story. There are hundreds of billions of dollars in “defense” spending that aren’t even counted in the Pentagon budget.
no less than 10 categories of national security spending — only one of which is the Pentagon budget. So steel yourself for a tour of our nation’s trillion-dollar-plus “national security” budget.
Given the Pentagon’s penchant for wasting money and our government’s record of engaging in dangerously misguided wars without end, it’s clear that a large portion of this massive investment of taxpayer dollars isn’t making anyone any safer.
The Ten "hidden" areas of Defense spending that really adds almost another 500 billion to the Pentagons already 530$ billion budget spending:
https://warisboring.com/the-trillion-dollar-military-budget/
