Originally posted by: Jeff7
<Comic store guy>
Most profitable war EVER!
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*Offer void for most citizens of US, and is only valid in Washington DC.
I am sure for the companies involved that is true.
Originally posted by: Jeff7
<Comic store guy>
Most profitable war EVER!
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*Offer void for most citizens of US, and is only valid in Washington DC.
Originally posted by: Narmer
Something is seriously wrong here and I don't remember any noise being made about this. Where is all this money going? I feel like this country is wounded and we have parasites liberally consuming at her for their own gratification. Who's guarding the hen-house? Where's the outrage?
As for the bolded part, why on God's green earth are we including 142 billion dollars for Iraq and Afghanistan when we already have a separate bill on that war? None of this makes any sense.
Originally posted by: icelazer
How's this for an idea...instead of approving $100 billion for armor and such..why not send congress an invoice and they'll sign off on it, that way they, and the people know what they're getting for $100 billion?
A list of the largest government social programs to illustrate my point about spending twice as much on social spending vs. defense spending.Originally posted by: umbrella39
{o,o}Originally posted by: ProfJohn
We spend at least twice as much on social programs as we do on defense.we have parasites liberally consuming at her for their own gratification
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That would make sense if the left looked at runaway social spending as a ?wrong? but to many of them they look at our social programs and wonder how we can spend even more money on them.Originally posted by: HombrePequeno
So you're saying two wrongs make a right?Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Was that in reference to amount of money we spend on social programs in this country?we have parasites liberally consuming at her for their own gratification
We spend at least twice as much on social programs as we do on defense.
Why aren?t you outraged at that?
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
A list of the largest government social programs to illustrate my point about spending twice as much on social spending vs. defense spending.Originally posted by: umbrella39
{o,o}Originally posted by: ProfJohn
We spend at least twice as much on social programs as we do on defense.we have parasites liberally consuming at her for their own gratification
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O RLY?
Dept Ag. Food stamps, WIC etc = $50 billion
HUD rental assistance and public housing = $25 billion
Medicare = $376 billion
Medicaid = $197 billion
Those programs alone equal the defense budget.
Then add social security, which is a social program, at $625 billion.
Now you are nearly double the defense budget, and that is federal spending alone.
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
That would make sense if the left looked at runaway social spending as a ?wrong? but to many of them they look at our social programs and wonder how we can spend even more money on them.Originally posted by: HombrePequeno
So you're saying two wrongs make a right?Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Was that in reference to amount of money we spend on social programs in this country?we have parasites liberally consuming at her for their own gratification
We spend at least twice as much on social programs as we do on defense.
Why aren?t you outraged at that?
All of you guys attacking me for my point totally missed it.
We have all this ?outrage? at the $646 billion being spent on defense, but no one says a word about the other spending.
Overall government spending, Federal, state and local, was equal to $4.1 trillion in 2006. Defense spending during that year, including the war, was $499 billion.
Two big points to be made from this:
1. Defense spending was only 12% of ALL government spending in this country.
2. GDP for 2006 was $13 trillion, government spending was $4.1 trillion meaning our government spent nearly a third of ALL the money in this country.