Proposed Discretionary Budget, FY2009 | National Priorities Project

Yikes. I didn’t realize just how large a percentage of our annual federal budget has been going toward “national defense”..i.e military spending. These numbers include the “discretionary war funding” that are in addition to the normal budget. The source for this info is the white house…click the link above and click around for as much analysis as you can stomach on where your tax dollars are going.

It’s time to reign in the defense beast….we outpace every other nation on the planet by a large margin in defense spending….no one comes close. In fact, I’ve read that you can combine the defense budgets of China and Russia and still not come close to the U.S’ defense spending. Thank you Boeing. Thanks Lockheed. Thanks General Dynamics. Our sick, undereducated and jobless owe you a debt of …as do our children, and their children…..