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Wednesday 30 September 2009
The Cost of Empire

Now look at it this way. The United States’ military budget is $636,292,979,000. Now, think about the “grave threats to our security” that neoconservatives are always rambling about–and realize that they spend a tiny percentage of this amount on their militaries:

Russia - $39,600,000,000
China - $70,308,600,000
North Korea - $5,500,000,000
Iran - $2,500,000,000
Venezuela - $4,000,000,000

In other words, we could cut military spending in half and we’d still be spending about three times as much as our “major threats” combined.

Notes

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    Lets not pretend that these people have any ground to stand on. These people have no credibility.
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    And we would have a ridiculously easy way to pay for healthcare. Unfortunately, the “movement conservatives” and...
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  11. champagnecandy reblogged this from amandaw and added:
    yep. that. also, how much were they whining that health care would cost again?
  12. this-girl reblogged this from think4yourself and added:
    This really puts things in perspective, imagine all of the things we could do with that extra money.
  13. think4yourself reblogged this from azspot and added:
    Pretty sure this is in part what Candidate Obama was talking about in 2008 when he said ”These countries are tiny...
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    God, you damn Libruls just don’t get it. If we cut military-welfare spending we would have to spend on other welfare...
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    Now look at it this way. The United States’ military budget is $636,292,979,000. Now, think about the “grave threats to...
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    Now look at it this way. The United States’ military budget is $636,292,979,000. Now, think about the “grave threats to...
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    azspot Now look at it this way. The United States’ military budget is $636,292,979,000. Now, think about the “grave...
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