More money on bullets than on schools May 7, 2008
Posted by ivanmladek in politics.Tags: 2009 Federal Discretionary Budget
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The 2009 US Federal Discretionary Budget as detailed vividly by the Death and Taxes website assigns more than
831 million dollars on bullets alone , do doubt used to spread democracy in the MIddle East
all the same while cutting the US Department of Education Program for Safe and Drug Free Schools by 59% to a puny $282 million. Of course these numbers are grossly out of context but I invite you to scroll around the huge graph and see for yourself. Wander at the largess of the Department of Defense that gobbles up the unbelievable $515 billion, yes that is $515,000,000,000. The Feds being clever, they hide the remaining military/national defense expenditure across numerous agencies to come up with a total of
799 billion dollars for all military/national defense related activities
which represents a stunning 24.7% of the total discretionary federal budget for 2009. Yes, this country spends almost a quarter of its federal dollars on waging war. Not that it can afford it, really. Just the interest payments this year on the unbelievable national debt of $10,150 billion will be $250 billion.
ivanmladek
From Megadeth’s Youthanasia
Sorry about the metal flashback, but that’s what your post reminded me of.