re: #181 Alouette

It’s more than just “some murmurs”

This isn’t just a bunch of old sixty-year-old post-menopausal women who are making up figures, they’re on to something. The actual military spending is staggering. The Obama defense budget for 2011 is $663.7 Bbllion dollars, which is almost 42% of all worldwide defense spending. This does not include the war supplemental spending that will also come up for a vote. The two next biggest spenders? China comes in at 5.8% of the worldwide budget and France at 4.5%.

I’ve always been one to eye-glaze-over when it comes to defense spending. Whatever they need, give them; we need a strong defense and most of the money is going to US folks. The numbers for the last 6 or so years are pretty staggering though. It does make we want to see, y’know a breakdown. Can we pretty please publish a spreadsheet that shows the line items on that $500,000,000,000 you’re spending?