Posted on Thursday, 14 January 2010

The Cost of Empire

glitterbombing:

champagnecandy:

amandaw:

rosasparks:azspot:

Now look at it this way. The United States’ military budget is $636,292,979,000. Now, think about the “grave threats to our security” that neoconservatives are always rambling about–and realize that they spend a tiny percentage of this amount on their militaries:

Russia - $39,600,000,000
China - $70,308,600,000
North Korea - $5,500,000,000
Iran - $2,500,000,000
Venezuela - $4,000,000,000

In other words, we could cut military spending in half and we’d still be spending about three times as much as our “major threats” combined.

yep. that. also, how much were they whining that health care would cost again?

 Lets not pretend that these people have any ground to stand on. These people have no credibility.

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  1. domole reblogged this from azspot
  2. therecipe reblogged this from glitterbombing and added:
    Lets not pretend that these people have any ground to stand on. These people have no credibility.
  3. glitterbombing reblogged this from champagnecandy
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  5. drinkthe-koolaid reblogged this from greaterthanlapsed and added:
    And we would have a ridiculously easy way to pay for healthcare. Unfortunately, the “movement conservatives” and...
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  9. champagnecandy reblogged this from amandaw and added:
    yep. that. also, how much were they whining that health care would cost again?
  10. this-girl reblogged this from think4yourself and added:
    This really puts things in perspective, imagine all of the things we could do with that extra money.
  11. think4yourself reblogged this from azspot and added:
    Pretty sure this is in part what Candidate Obama was talking about in 2008 when he said ”These countries are tiny...
  12. jasencomstock reblogged this from rosa--sparks and added:
    God, you damn Libruls just don’t get it. If we cut military-welfare spending we would have to spend on other welfare...
  13. abcsoupdot reblogged this from azspot and added:
    Now look at it this way. The United States’ military budget is $636,292,979,000. Now, think about the “grave threats to...
  14. amandaw reblogged this from rosa--sparks and added:
    Now look at it this way. The United States’ military budget is $636,292,979,000. Now, think about the “grave threats to...
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  16. l3fan-o-rama reblogged this from azspot and added:
    azspot Now look at it this way. The United States’ military budget is $636,292,979,000. Now, think about the “grave...
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