BALANCE THE BUDGET
Military spending was about $300 billion in 2001. Last year it was about $800 billion. The U.S. Department of Defense budget accounted in fiscal year 2010 for about 19% of the United States federal budgeted expenditures and 28% of estimated tax revenues. Including non-DOD expenditures, military spending was approximately 2838% of budgeted expenditures and 4257% of estimated tax revenues.
[The last thing Russia or China want is war. They have never had it so good. The jihadists have been slaughtering each other for 10,000 years. Help them do it again. They wont have time to be concerned about us. Cut military spending to 2001 levels. The overhead in taxes burdens manufacturing lowering ability to compete and increasing trade deficit/job deficit. The 2012 defense budget is 6-7 times larger than the $106 billion of the military budget of China, and is more than the next twenty largest military spenders combined. Nineteen Saudi jihadists armed with box cutters have cost the United States trillions of dollars almost half the current deficit and crippled ability of the country to cope with current and future threats. The doubling of the price of oil has been described as the biggest income transfer in history. Probably the most effective military strategy in history. The increased cost of energy reduces the ability of manufacturing to compete increasing the jobs/trade deficit.
Military spending was about $300 billion in 2001. Last year it was about $800 billion. The U.S. Department of Defense budget accounted in fiscal year 2010 for about 19% of the United States federal budgeted expenditures and 28% of estimated tax revenues. Including non-DOD expenditures, military spending was approximately 2838% of budgeted expenditures and 4257% of estimated tax revenues.
[The last thing Russia or China want is war. They have never had it so good. The jihadists have been slaughtering each other for 10,000 years. Help them do it again. They wont have time to be concerned about us. Cut military spending to 2001 levels. The overhead in taxes burdens manufacturing lowering ability to compete and increasing trade deficit/job deficit. The 2012 defense budget is 6-7 times larger than the $106 billion of the military budget of China, and is more than the next twenty largest military spenders combined. Nineteen Saudi jihadists armed with box cutters have cost the United States trillions of dollars almost half the current deficit and crippled ability of the country to cope with current and future threats. The doubling of the price of oil has been described as the biggest income transfer in history. Probably the most effective military strategy in history. The increased cost of energy reduces the ability of manufacturing to compete increasing the jobs/trade deficit.
