Steveo
I wasn't speaking of the Great Depression, I was speaking of the Bush Depression. Greece has nothing to do with America's future. Greece's retirement age is at 51. If we had a retirement age of 51 we would be in their situation too. The defense budget is not how much we spend , it is how much we admit we are spending.
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For the 2010 fiscal year, the president's base budget of the Department of Defense rose to $533.8 billion. Adding spending on "overseas contingency operations" brings the sum to $663.8 billion.[1][2]
When the budget was signed into law on October 28, 2009, the final size of the Department of Defense's budget was $680 billion, $16 billion more than President Obama had requested.[3][4] An additional $33 billion supplemental bill to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was expected to pass in the spring of 2010, but has been delayed by the House of Representatives after passing the Senate.[5][6] Defense-related expenditures outside of the Department of Defense constitute between $216 billion and $361 billion in additional spending, bringing the total for defense spending to between $880 billion and
$1.03 trillion in fiscal year 2010.[7]
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Military budget of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is for fighting and this is for fun!!!!!