World military spending in 2009 = $1.53 trillion. USA share = 43%

[aegis]

Typical conservative morons.

Military spending is not a big deal, but education spending and student loans are.

 

[crgarcia]

Quote from Kassz007:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mi...153-trillion-in-2009-2010-06-18?siteid=yhoof2

Not even recessions can slow military spending. Which defense company do you currently own?

Military spending should INCREASE during recessions, so that those unemployed can at least find a job as soldiers.

Sad but true.

 

[cstfx]

Quote from nazzdack:

?....don't they have a soccer game scheduled next week?

this past Tues, 2-1 Brazil

 

[SomeYoungGuy]

Quote from crgarcia:

Military spending should INCREASE during recessions, so that those unemployed can at least find a job as soldiers.

Sad but true.

It does. They are called wars. Worked on the Great Depression.

 

[Misthos]

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[Mav88]

Typical conservative morons.

Military spending is not a big deal, but education spending and student loans are.

typical liberal morons, always claim the military is taking money away from their out of control gov't social spending which never has enough money.

The facts are also that most of the USA military spending goes towards the care and feeding of soldiers, their families, and retirees, also comparing raw GDP between nations ignores purchasing power parity.

Defense is 14% of total local, state, and federal government spending. Get over yourselves.

 

[BigFunky]

Quote from Mav88:

Defense is 14% of total local, state, and federal government spending. Get over yourselves.

So defense is social spending?

 

[Mav88]

I didn't say that, but in a way it is. Minorities use it as a jobs program.

 

[patmanfever]

Quote from Mav88:

I didn't say that, but in a way it is. Minorities use it as a jobs program.

Because whites NEVER join the military for a job or money for college.

 

[MKTrader]

Quote from aegis:

Typical conservative morons.

Military spending is not a big deal, but education spending and student loans are.

Typical single-brain-celled Obamadrone.

No correlation between education spending and results. We spent less per student (adjusted for inflation) 100 years ago with much better results. Today private schools spend much less and get better results. But teacher's unions and other idiots continually push for more taxpayer money to add things like diversity training (i.e., brainwashing) and more computer labs so functionally-illiterate kids can text each other & surf porn sites.

For the record, I'm for cutting a lot of military spending as well. The Pentagon has a ton of waste and we don't need nearly as big a footprint overseas. But we need to protect our borders.