I agree with you, I wonder why someone downvoted / flagged your post. The US has 1000+ bases around the world and spends a lot of money maintaining troops in "f

I agree with you, I wonder why someone downvoted / flagged your post. The US has 1000+ bases around the world and spends a lot of money maintaining troops in "friendly" countries and client states (Middle East puppet regimes) and occupying and bombing other countries. The real total "defense budget" including all the offensive actions, DoD, Pentagon, TSA etc is more than $1 trillion (that's $1000 billion, or $1000,000 million). All of that could be spent at home but we'd rather bomb / liberate those civilians than to spend money on healthcare of our elderly or food or education of our kids. http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/02/20/the-real-us-military-budget-1-trillion/ http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/02/20/the-real-us-military-budg... http://ibnlive.in.com/news/us-govt-ran--13-trillion-budget-deficit-in-2011/193143-2.html http://ibnlive.in.com/news/us-govt-ran--13-trillion-budget-d... The Federal Reserve has printed trillions of dollars and given it to their buddy banksters and have no trail of it, and we the taxpayers have to pay it back by inflation. Poor suckers who saved for their retirements can go to hell. http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2009/05/14/federal-reserve-cannot-account-for-9-trillion/ http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2009/05/14/federal-reser... End the corporate bailouts, bring the US military budget to a sane level, end the subsidies for big oil and gas, end the subsidies to banksters and we'll have enough to feed all the kids and the poor and provide universal healthcare. Bank of America Pays No Taxes, Gets $1B Refund: Report http://www.thestreet.com/story/11059978/bank-of-america-pays-no-taxes-gets-1b-refund-report.html http://www.thestreet.com/story/11059978/bank-of-america-pays... Bank of America, GE Pay Zero Federal Taxes http://publicintelligence.net/bank-of-america-ge-pay-zero-federal-taxes/ http://publicintelligence.net/bank-of-america-ge-pay-zero-fe... Bank of America, Citigroup, GM paid no taxes http://www.standard.net/topics/opinion/2011/04/04/bank-america-citigroup-gm-paid-no-taxes http://www.standard.net/topics/opinion/2011/04/04/bank-ameri... Federal Reserve Cannot Account For $9 Trillion http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2009/05/14/federal-reserve-cannot-account-for-9-trillion/ http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2009/05/14/federal-reser... We all pay for the research but when it's time for profits it's "capitalism" because socialism is evil! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies A 2009 study by the Environmental Law Institute[5] assessed the size and structure of U.S. energy subsidies over the 2002–2008 period. The study estimated that subsidies to fossil-fuel based sources amounted to approximately $72 billion over this period and subsidies to renewable fuel sources totaled $29 billion. The study did not assess subsidies supporting nuclear energy. The three largest fossil fuel subsidies were: Foreign tax credit ($15.3 billion) Credit for production of non-conventional fuels ($14.1 billion) Oil and Gas exploration and development expensing ($7.1 billion) The three largest renewable fuel subsidies were: Alcohol Credit for Fuel Excise Tax ($11.6 billion) Renewable Electricity Production Credit ($5.2 billion) Corn-Based Ethanol ($5.0 billion)