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

Discussion in 'Economics' started by Kassz007, Jun 18, 2010.

  1. aegis

    aegis

    Typical conservative morons.

    Military spending is not a big deal, but education spending and student loans are.
     
    #11     Jun 18, 2010
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  3. cstfx

    cstfx

    this past Tues, 2-1 Brazil
     
    #13     Jun 18, 2010
  4. It does. They are called wars. Worked on the Great Depression.
     
    #14     Jun 18, 2010
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    #15     Jun 18, 2010
  6. Mav88

    Mav88

    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.
     
    #16     Jun 18, 2010
  7. So defense is social spending?
     
    #17     Jun 18, 2010
  8. Mav88

    Mav88

    I didn't say that, but in a way it is. Minorities use it as a jobs program.
     
    #18     Jun 18, 2010
  9. Because whites NEVER join the military for a job or money for college.
     
    #19     Jun 18, 2010
  10. MKTrader

    MKTrader

    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.
     
    #20     Jun 18, 2010