We need to spend more on our defense budget?
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
Eugene, Oregon
February 27, 2017 5:51pm CST
Let's see, we spend 625 billion dollars annually (2013 budget). That is 18% of the total US budget. That is also more than the next seven countries combined, including Russia and China.
Veterans' health gets 1.8%, proving what "great" care we are taking of the people we send to fight our wars. Other interesting figures shown by a pie chart provided by the Congressional Budget Office include Medicaid and Children's' Health Insurance (8%), Social Security (23%), and Medicare (14%).
Our new President wants to add another 54 billion to military spending and pay for that with cuts from other parts of the budget, meaning hang on, folks. Medicare, Medicaid, and other social programs will be the first to suffer.
Here is a link to the CBO pie chart.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/4/15/1292380/-Federal-Spending-In-One-Beautiful-Pie-Chart
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@celticeagle (168676)
• Boise, Idaho
28 Feb 17
I just saw on the news where the security for his immediate family is costing tax payers big bucks. How can we pay for all of this. More in the budget for military and more for infrastructure and all the rest he wants to do. It doesn't make sense to me because he also want to lower taxes.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 Feb 17
Yes, the personal security of the Trumps is costing an outlandish amount. This is really a typical Republican thing he wants to do with the budget.
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@celticeagle (168676)
• Boise, Idaho
28 Feb 17
@JamesHxstatic ....I think he has some good ideas but he needs to learn how government works. It's not like big business.
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 Feb 17
@celticeagle I see no good ideas at all coming from this administration.
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@LadyDuck (472198)
• Switzerland
28 Feb 17
@JamesHxstatic He risks to do a lot of damage to your country.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 Feb 17
@LadyDuck I know and we are powerless with his party in control of the House and Senate.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 Feb 17
He is off the charts with his mad proposals.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 Feb 17
I am afraid that they will fall into line and go along with him down the path of dumb ideas.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 Feb 17
@DianneN Duuno, but chances are it won't be good,
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@DianneN (247184)
• United States
28 Feb 17
@JamesHxstatic There is public outrage. I will be following this to see what happens. Geez! What next???
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 Feb 17
Seems like more than enough...
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@Coldfront (76)
• Suzhou, China
28 Feb 17
I thingk only one reason can explain this problem, that is American people was rich enough to offer this bugget. Conversely, it is impossible to spend this large amount of money to military in china ,because this country is so poor and millions of people are suffering from starvation,but the budget rate is on the highside too. So you should be happle as American people. haha!
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@marguicha (223959)
• Chile
28 Feb 17
When Americans (and I also mean Caucasians) know how good Obamacare was for the less afluent, it will be too late
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
28 Feb 17
Cutting PBS and NPR will definitely cut that budget!
