Pentagon war cost exceeds US annual tax intake?

[fleamarketmutt]

Corporate United States of America uses military for Afghanistan in protecting areas around the corporate owned oil pipeline, not terrorist or the Taliban

[lucky01242]

people people your asking the wrong questions and pointing fingers....the real questions is how much does the US make off of going to war? You see profiteers, capitalists, communists they make money off of going to war (physically, economically, socially). The problem is as a western ''light side'' democratic nation it would be damning if the general public was aware that in fact war is good for the American economy. War is profitable.

[badsign1980]

aryan? lol what iranian? ancient greek? north indian? the rt crew is not made of russian ladies exclusvely, im pretty sure that christine is or portuguese or part portuguese frazao is a portuguese surname, its not russian, martin sheen for exemple is also part portuguese his real name is martin estevez, portuguese- gallego father and irish mother

[badsign1980]

christine frazao... or is it frazão... i think it is a portuguese name funny how they change the names in the usa

[chookization]

War is GOD's way of teaching Americans geography

[noselfnoproblemo]

STOP! DONT Aee. RGUE! We know the enemy and its not the other you tube guy. Its where you spend or dont spend your "dollar". Or do you say fuck the dollar and go all out rouge? Whatever! You know theres a big bad world that wants to see the end of the "middle class" so focus and stop fighting.

[dilugitu]

dear bapi very inteesting.

[ronheri]

The true terrorists are in Washington, where they have declared war on the taxpayers. The day of reckoning will be coming.

[greshamweed]

So Muslims who kill innocent people to strike terror in the masses are noy "terrorists"? Or are they just not "real terroristes"?

[Pyroscopy]

how is this war defending America defending itself...it's more of an invasion. Just keep the race of people that are causing this out and harder punishment for those that convert to those acts

on a side not. I love RT. So many white hot women.

[seenote0]

Not only that but after 911 everything has changed around the world. 911 was willful treason. The US Government is turning into a racist nation. This War is racist and now.. anyone that is for it is considered a racist in my eyes. Its really astonishing to see people sit there and lie to you about the truth.. When are they going to tell the truth to the American people! Probably never!

[jthomas12793]

Wow! Two beautiful Aryan foxes. Love the commentator babes on RT!

[ChinaRedDrag0n]

Not Aryan, But American Bitches !!

[jthomas12793]

Fool. You obviously don't know what an Aryan is. Shut up.

[TheSharpenedPen]

Bring the troops home? Nobel peace award? Damn people, it's like I said, DO NOT under any circumstances, vote for someone who's a member of the CFR.

[breakfree00]

americans are proud of their useless war spending they should't be of thatr. they should spend the money for up lift of the poor of the world. only one day spending of these americans is enough to feed trhe poor of world for years. even if these dollar which are spend in the afghanistan for war, were spend for education and development of the area wold have been much much benificial. americans are just fighting war with poor hungry people and baren mountains of afghanistan.

[breakfree00]

Americans are just pigs pigs specially the govt which is lobeyed by jews and doest know how to do right in the world. they are just ruinnig the world by their one way thinking like the pig headed thinking. they dont know their are other socities in the world and how to live with them. americans the pigs have taken the world to just destructuion. they are using their all resoureces fro the destructuion. their only one day millitary budget is enough for feeding the poor hungry poeple of the world

[CaptainBuckSnort]

You folks just don't understand modern money mechanics. the government prints up all the money they will ever need. Actually most of it is digital as the are not enough tree's and ink to print the estimated 4 million trillion billion zillion dollars we have budgeted for the war on the world, I mean terror. For those of you that can not wrap your mind around that number it's $4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000­,000,000000,000,000,000,000,00­0,000,000,000,000,000,000.00

So just don't worry about it. Bub

[strongbadassman]

the more they print the sooner the dollar devalues, the sooner the dollar devalues the sooner countries around the world start trading in other currencies, already happening by the way, and the sooner a new world currency is created, probably using the IMF standard, and a new world government is created.

[therrydicule]

First of all: a "world government" will never happen in a government form. Your statement is metapolitically wrong. What we actualy have is some union of nation, based a bit on Kantism.

Second: we are talking about solution to the USD's dependence, because USD is a state money. It is unrealistic to have 65% of the world transaction in it. A "world cash"? EU had taken 60 years for the euro, there is no way to that with everybody... So, we might start to see classical gold bullion transaction.

[rebeccadr]

THE TIME FOR PEACE IS NOW !!!

[rebeccadr]

Live by the sword - Die by the sword.

[dex1142]

Hail Ceasar!!!

Washington DC is ruining this country!!!!

[socomplete]

why does the news media sugar coat everything to make it seem like everything is okay?

[klard]

The problem is summed up when she asks how the government should divy up the money. The government should not be divying up money. It should not have the money or power to do that.

[grandmachristine42]

When you look at this gov't, how it rewards anything harmful and punishesanything that might improve life in US/on earth, its hard not to sink into superstittion and just conclude "Its the devil".

[clarkcolt45]

the US dollar is the reserve currency of the world - forced to be reserve with violence and threats.

US will only print more money when tax money is not enough - in that way, everyone in the world holding dollars are also supporting the wars.

I personally hate everyone that is stupid enough to own dollars.

40% of all US dollars are own outside the US.

[vtkrey]

Oh cmon anthony... since when did we all turn to care for one another?, you guys have been brainwashing and supplying those people with weapons and training throughout the Soviet campaign and now NATO crawls to Kremlin asking for help ... if the world was fair we should be sending kalashnikovs and RPGs to the Taliban not helping NATO.

[ImperialEmpire]

This is not accurate. The US gets a little over $2 trillion in tax revenue, but the wars are only a few hundred billion.

[klard]

ImperialEmpire: You missed the facts of this report. Your few hundred billion is actually just short of a trillion dollars. The video is talking about the tax revenues of the 50 states not the federal government.

[ImperialEmpire]

That is still not correct. The wars themselves are not 1 trillion, ALLEGEDLY, the combination of the cost of war, with our normal military budget (of over 500 billion) is equal to 1 trillion, or so, but the wars themselves are not 1 trillion. Also, the cost of the wars includes things like permenant bases we now have in Iraq and other middle eastern regions.

Anyway, who cares? States are not independent, so why compare that to a federal expense? It's dumb.

[a7green]

....... Govt. knows what it's doing, they purposely want the country to go broke... and it already is.

[sinitskyd]

our Russian friends should help us pay for all our wars by paying a global carbon tax.

[nfusionthemes]

Satan the Jew is coming

[aSuperbadassninja]

what does the pentagons inflated budget have to do with that terrorist that tried to blow up the plane? thats the job of the FBI...and i dont like that she refers to the military as a "defense" budget...i think of it as an "offense" budget

[Wambago09]

How Is The US Government Not Bankrupt? They Sure Love Spending Money To Fund Imperialistic Wars Abroad.

[towerdawg1976]

Motherfucker's will print more!

[BITARTEN]

War, killings, terror, terrorism... USA

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

Just like the soviets in the 80s, spend til you can';t spend no more. Next year the American people will end up like many in the soviet union drunk, hopeless, out of work, very little pay, and over taxation.

[eyeswideshuttt]

People need to go to the streets.

[xXJADEXx7]

The money sure as hell doesn't go to the soldiers or veterans, well other then the 20 dollar pepsi and 40 dollar loaf of bread that the war profiteers charge the taxpayers.

[motorolarules]

I think we should know everything and decide how we want our money spent.

[nikto2000]

Haliburton gets 99 dollars for a load of laundry. The DOD pays 600 dollars for a gallon of gas in Afghanistan. The outrage of war profiteering is why the USA spends so much on the military. Wars are not meant to be won now, they are meant to go on as long as possible, so that cronies can become million and billionaires. Over 100 members of the congress are invested in defense industries also...hmmmm maybe more war benefits them also. Taxpayers are being robbed in the name of security.

[xandras1111]

yea, the eugenicists were pretty smart...

[TheElectricHeat]

the war cost isn't even CLOSE to what they took from us for The Bailout. this is red herring

[PakistaniisPower]

You are so stupid, its true, even American admitted it

[TheElectricHeat]

The bailouts have cost us more than every war combined since Korea. who is stupid? you are. trillions and trillions going to the banks make these wars look like raindrops

[otto1882]

It isn't a red herring. This is also a very relevant issue. What, can't people deal with more than one topic at a time?

[Red0660]

The United States has the most wide spread imperial army on the planet. We currently occupy about 180 countries.

Warfare spending is our largest priority with about 800 billion in expenditure. We are the military industrial complex my president Eisenhower warned about....

Soon the best life will be the life of a soldier if you want healthcare, retirement, job stability, etc....

[Lurie2010]

It costs a lot to develop a standing army for the NWO.

[leostomicek]

How are you going to have a socialised medicine with such spending...

[justaoldslave]

Thanks R.T.,Kelly, Kristine and Sherwood. First off, attacking sovereign nations unprovoked is not in defence of are nation. Its corruption and evil out of control. If the U.S. people want to go after the terrorists that are most damaging to the nation, look at Wall Street and Washington.

[GeminiAzules]

Terrorists in one form or another exist in every country. its a good excuse to make war.

There are better reasons that exist but the government would rather make them up.

The US is doing the right thing, but not for the right reasons.

[redthunder3979]

we will be eating road kill in the dark before america gives up on the $war$

[alexanderthewraith]

They are goin' bust and they know it!

At this point it's just a matter of time before a stronger nation tries to take us over!

If that happens it will not be long before armaggedon! There's NOWHERE to hide!

[TheReallitycheck]

lets ask the tax payers to pay for the wars....

we would have world peace in1 day

[charlessmyth]

The healthcare insurance initiative should balance the federal tax deficit.

[14842]

well we have to keep our boys entertained, like 65% dont even finish Hi school, so yah, war gives them a chance to do something with their lives, and the war economies has proven to be very profitable for the pentagon and its defense friends. Not to mention their guinea pig status for testing new technologies. Which is also a economy drive. ( I get at least 6 thumps down for telling the truth lmao. )

[ChinaRedDrag0n]

LOL, true true

USA has plummeting education system

and most american recruits are just volunteering

for the Pay, most of these fuckers didn't even finish yet college, USA economy is consumer based and war based

[ChinaRedDrag0n]

Studying in American Public Schools

is NASTY, Poor Training grounds and below

the average teaching standards for a " developed country"

LOL, I Shit on US EDUCATION !!!

[Red0660]

The U.S. has a horrible education system and funding is directly controlled by the peoples dept of education. You only get money and funding by making the numbers look good at any cost and by teaching what the government says you should teach.. Take Bush's abstinence sex education as one of many. Don't teach abstinence only then no money for you.

Our education system should be free and sovereign.

We rank 34th in math and 29th in science of all nations on the PISA standardized test...

[SuPeRBoB2701]

If you want change, Join The Venus Project, and the Zeitgeist Movement.

Educate yourself, Almost all information can be found on the Internet today.

Wake up people :)

[ogapadoga]

America cut education funding, cut transport funding, cut jobs, cut public services funding but boost money for bankers,warlords... etc...bye bye USA...

[charlessmyth]

The irony is that the federal government shouldn't be funding any of these things, anyway.

[xandras1111]

I am looking forward to dollar losing more value.. i will make so much more money :P

[HoughMorris]

slap :O

[tytoso]

indeed :D

[SergeantColeUSMC]

Great video and the truth

[HoughMorris]

terrorthreat since 2001 lol

us sponsored inside job terror

USA is a joke

and insult to humans

[xandras1111]

im sorry for our government, we cant do anything about it. god save us

[CommanderUTube]

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

( David Friedman )

Maybe eons ago, perpetual wars enabled a planet wide EMPIRE to be built on Mars, until all surface of the planet became devoid of life.

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

( Napoleon Bonaparte )

It is the nature of things that thousands, even millions, billions must die so that one name will become NW0 First World Emperor, The Great!

[cerritoboy]

Actually the United States has always been a spartan state! The US is constantly at war!

[Kerrville911Truth]

Abolish the Pentagon. Buy a gun, and defend yourselves.

America is in freefall collapse.

[cujo9]

this man is fully right and spot on, the terrorist threat on the plane was an inside job, an excuse to clamp down on american civil liberties , the news girl hasn't got a fucking clue.

[ReyesRobby]

Whoa, Russia seems pretty cool nowadays.

[sparklenthaskyy]

they seem pretty kool yea since they talk about things us media wont touch, until you start researching things like Chernobyl and how they russian government loves to cover stuff up

[flyhead2]

War generates a lot of interest to which we are all indebted.

[Chancellor521]

Once again, RT gives legitimacy to the bogus war on terror and bogus terrorist threat.

Fucking pathetic. RT is no different from CNN or FOX.

This is my last RT video, tired of the propaganda.

Peace.