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Originally Posted by jeremy  The problem a lot of people have is the money being spent on the war. What they fail to realize is the majority of that money would have already been budgeted towards the military, even during peace keeping years. It takes BILLIONS of dollars to keep a free standing military that can fight. Not to mention the R&D Programs the military community sponsers, that they don't happen to make money from that the civilian populace does. |
The entire miltary budget for 2002 was $32 billion. In 2003 that spending doubled to $76 billion. by 2007 that had more than doubled again to $165 billion. This year the administration has asked for $188 billion. The total cost of the wars in afghanistan & Iraq is around 752 billion dollars.
In comparison in 2006 federal corporate welfare was $92 billion, HUD total - ~$40 billion, food stamps - $33 billion, TANF (cash) - $20 billion, WIC - $3 billion.
People complain about spending money to help feed & house the poor but have no problem spending this kind of money to kill thousands.