Are we safe yet?
Are we safe yet?
Source: Center for Arms Control and Non-ProliferationIt’s your tax money
For Fiscal Year 2009 the White House is seeking $741 billion for the military ($541 billion for the Pentagon, nuclear weapons, and missile defense, $200 billion more for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.)
Cost of Iraq and Afghanistan
$4,700 per second, $410 million per day, $12.3 billion per month. Where would YOU spend this money?
The U.S. military budget is more than half of the overall U.S. budget, 54% military, 46 % everything else (e.g. education, health, international affairs, housing, environment, science, transportation, economic development, social security/medicare, agriculture, energy)
The United States spends more on military than the next 45 highest spending countries in the world combined ......
U.S. military spending is 48% of the world total.
There are U.S. military installations in 156 sovereign countries in the world. European Command and Africa Command are in Stuttgart/Vaihingen. U.S. atomic rockets are “secured“ in Büchel, near Frankfurt.
Are soldiers and mercenaries providing the kind of global representation you want?