Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Cost of an Empire


Thanks to the efforts of Novenator


The Insanity Of U.S. Military Spending In One Chart

This chart actually underestimates US military spending. Starting in the Vietnam War, the Military-Industrial Complex in the US began hiding their true spending levels in various budgets outside the Dept. of Defense (DoD). The real expenditures are nearly DOUBLE the official DoD figures as explained and tabulated very clearly here:http://archive.truthout.org/the-real-us-national-security-budget-the-figure-no-one-wants-you-see68127
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States#Budget_Breakdown_for_2012
and http://pubrecord.org/commentary/7412/dollars-military/

// posted by montag @ 4:51 PM
Comments:
But nobody listening to Ike when he tried to tell them the military industrial complex was coming to eat us all.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 6:37 PM
 
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: It's Expensive!
# posted by Blogger Fearguth : 6:37 PM
 

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