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Holy cow, i thought something like %40 of the US economy went towards military? I have obviously never researched that, if anything i'm saying this because i be

Holy cow, i thought something like %40 of the US economy went towards military? I have obviously never researched that, if anything i'm saying this because i believe my belief is somewhat common. Why do so many believe military/defense is so highly spent? Also, where the hell is all of our money going haha. I'm googling, some random images/sources/etc are saying that Military is ~19%, with social health/security/aid/etc being around ~60% percent. But the numbers in so many of these sources differ greatly. That, combined with your 3.3%, everything seems so drastically different. What were you basing your 3.3% off of?

DenisM 10y ago
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?year_high_desc=true http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?year_h...
ythl 10y ago
> Holy cow, i thought something like %40 of the US economy went towards military No, you're thinking of welfare/social security Edit: anyone care to explain the downvotes? My data comes from here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/interactive-budget https://www.whitehouse.gov/interactive-budget Add together social security, income security, and other welfares, and you get ~40% of the budget.
- monkmartinez 10y ago
  No one likes to hear the truth. I gave you an upvote because saying that medicare, social security waste, and welfare are more expensive that the military ruins the little utopia's HN'ers have built up in their minds.
catalinbraescu 10y ago
3.3 from GDP. 19% from Federal budget.
izacus 10y ago
He's quoting % GDP of USA, not % of budget. I think that is a discrepancy. The spending is still massive in comparison to pretty much any country in the world. As I said in the other post, just a handul of worlds countries come close to spending 3% of GDP on military - now couple that with the fact that USA has largest GDP in the world and you get a staggering amount of money spent.
waterfowl 10y ago
3.3% of GDP. The ones where military is a huge share as are SS/medicare is the federal budget.

DenisM 10y ago

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?year_high_desc=true http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?year_h...

ythl 10y ago

> Holy cow, i thought something like %40 of the US economy went towards military No, you're thinking of welfare/social security Edit: anyone care to explain the downvotes? My data comes from here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/interactive-budget https://www.whitehouse.gov/interactive-budget Add together social security, income security, and other welfares, and you get ~40% of the budget.

monkmartinez 10y ago
No one likes to hear the truth. I gave you an upvote because saying that medicare, social security waste, and welfare are more expensive that the military ruins the little utopia's HN'ers have built up in their minds.

catalinbraescu 10y ago

3.3 from GDP. 19% from Federal budget.

izacus 10y ago

He's quoting % GDP of USA, not % of budget. I think that is a discrepancy. The spending is still massive in comparison to pretty much any country in the world. As I said in the other post, just a handul of worlds countries come close to spending 3% of GDP on military - now couple that with the fact that USA has largest GDP in the world and you get a staggering amount of money spent.

waterfowl 10y ago

3.3% of GDP. The ones where military is a huge share as are SS/medicare is the federal budget.