http://www.workers.org/2007/us/war-budget-0215/Twenty thousand dollars a second; $70 million an hour. That’s how much money the Pentagon will be allowed to spend under the administration’s planned 2008 federal budget.
The $2.9 trillion Bush budget defies superlatives. Virtually every government program that addresses human needs is to be cut.
But the military got its largest war chest ever, a staggering two-thirds of a trillion dollars for more war, more nuclear weapons, more militarization of outer space, more U.S. troops around the globe, more bombs, bullets, guns and missiles.
In terms of real, pre-inflation dollars, it’s the highest level of military spending since the height of the Korean War in 1952. It’s a 10 percent hike from last year’s war spending. And this is in addition to $145 billion in “supplemental funding” that will go directly to the wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan.
more at link. :mad: