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You spend it on warfare and throw the rest after some billionaires.
by 5tefan 5y ago
You spend it on warfare and throw the rest after some billionaires.
- missedthecue 5y agoWhy do you make a comment like this when the US federal budget breakdown is clearly available online. Most goes to social services benefits, welfare, and socialized healthcare. https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/mandatory_spending_pie%2C__2015_enacted.png https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/mandatory_spend...
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoI'd like to see that overlaid with military spending at the same scale. Probably wouldn't mean that much anymore, then. Ah, well, not overlaid, not to scale, but nonetheless: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/guides/tipsheet-pentagon-spending/ https://www.nationalpriorities.org/guides/tipsheet-pentagon-... tl;dr Military & Security Spending In fiscal year 2015, Pentagon and related spending will total $598 billion, accounting for 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending. That's roughly the size of the next seven largest military budgets around the world, combined. Peanuts!