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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. ...

:cry: :cry:

[virgogal]

2. Who did the chart?

[patrice]

8. See my post #6 below.

[virgogal]

13. Thank you.

[patrice]

3. Does anyone know how long it has been like this? 20years? 30? 40?

[burnsei sensei]

4. I know where that 51% isn't going.

It won't feed any hungry Americans on American soil.
It won't educate any children.
It won't build any highways.
It won't inspect and maintain any bridges.
It won't buy light rail.
It won't improve the rail system we have for passengers.
It won't go toward alternate fuels.
It won't house the homeless.
In other words, 51% of our resources are gone. We give them and away they go.
When will we have a stake in the society?
What should we be obligated to when so little is done for us with our own funds?

[patrice]

7. Gauranteed lifetime jobs for the Military. Employed "at will" for the rest of us.

[dem mba]

5. what exactly are we looking at here?

a title and a source would be helpful.

[patrice]

6. There's several of these around. Here's the one copied above:

http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm

I know these guys have one of these charts and a bunch of this kind of information too: http://www.fcnl.org/index.htm

[dem mba]

9. thanks

charts are 100% meaningless unless you know all the accompanying information.

[patrice]

11. been there, seen that, more than I want to admit!

:hi:

[Lorien]

10. A better one:

Source: http://www.imow.org/economica/stories/viewStory?storyId=3657

[L0oniX]

12. 757 B is a low balled figure. Try over a trillion!

Defense-related expenditures outside of the Department of Defense constitute between $216 billion and $361 billion in additional spending, bringing the total for defense spending to between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion in fiscal year 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States