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Originally Posted by lustylad
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Is the role of government to spend the country into the poor house? 9/11 was not a major military victory. Though tragic , hardly worth spending 4 trillion dollars on something that was basically meant to scare pussies like you? We should have just bought you chicken shits diapers and a night light. Should the government protect us from Medical Errors? Afterall we lose 200k people a year to that? Yet you are not running around in a dirty diaper crying for the Federal Government to protect you from terrorist Doctors! 
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Real Time Estimate
Top 7 Causes of Death
Since 1 Jan, 2013 Cause Annually To Date Tobacco: 529,000 1,103,033 Medical Errors: 195,000 406,600 Alcohol Abuse: 107,400 223,943 Vehicle Accidents: 42,000 87,575 Suicide: 29,350 61,199 Drug Abuse: 25,500 53,171 Firearm Homicide: 10,828 22,578
Looks like you missed my posting of a truer picture of spending
https://www.warresisters.org/content...ey-really-goes
WRL'S PIE CHART FLYER
The current edition of the War Resisters League's famous "pie chart" flyer analyzes the Federal Fiscal Year 2015 Budget. Perfect for Tax Day leafletting, as a focus for forums and panels and workshops and more!
Each year, War Resisters League analyzes federal funds outlays as presented in detailed tables in "Analytical Perspectives" of the Budget of the United States Government. Our analysis is based on federal funds, which do not include trust funds -- such as Social Security -- that are raised separately from income taxes for specific purposes. What you pay (or don't pay) by April 15, 2014 goes to the federal funds portion of the budget.
HOW WERE THE FY2015 PIE CHART FIGURES DETERMINED?
Current military” includes Dept. of Defense ($584 billion) and the military portion from other departments as noted in current military box above ($202 billion). Funding for the war on terror is listed as “Overseas Contingency Operations” and totals $47 in this breakdown. “Past military” represents veterans’ benefits plus 80% of the interest on the debt.*
These figures are from an analysis of detailed tables in the Analytical Perspectives book of the Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2015. The figures are Federal funds, which do not include Trust funds — such as Social Security — that are raised and spent separately from income taxes.
What you pay (or don’t pay) by April 15, 2014, goes to the Federal funds portion of the budget. The government practice of combining Trust and Federal funds began during the Vietnam War, thus making the human needs portion of the budget seem larger and the military portion smaller.
*Analysts differ on how much of the debt stems from the military; other groups estimate 50% to 60%. We use 80% because we believe if there had been no military spending most (if not all) of the national debt would have been eliminated.
