US Spends 59% of Budget on Defense

The United States is slated to spend 59% of its Fiscal Year 2012 discretionary budget on 'defense'. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/28/376422/why-we-occupy-visualizing-...

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[fankkije]

@AtheistSwede In Finland it's 6,1% on defense and 16,3% on education :D

[FranklyLate]

The US is a wasp-economy. The US is a wasp-society.

The US is a theocratic paranoid killing machine.

[soundslave]

America needs all that money on defence? Maybe they should spend some money to find out why they need 'defending' (here's a hint, stop pissing off the wrold and making enemies).

[dumbassmoron]

@sofusmadsen yeah thats a nice argument, rather than challenge my logic or do something smart like that u comment on a user name that i invented. You are the first person to ever do that /sarcasm

[MathewJoki]

Think about how many $5 footlongs that could buy!

[Pinage]

What a shame the American people don't value leaders with integrity.

[cgord31]

@iknewitwastrue You're right, most Americans are good people, in fact I have many American friends, but the leadership of that country appears to be pure evil. Has been for decades now

[USMCgo]

Cenk is one of my favorite people but he needs to do some more research. We should cut defense but we should cut foreign aid and military bases in places like Australia. He just doesn't seem to understand some of the issues facing the military.

[USMCgo]

@FranklyLate America is an incredible country. The Republican Party is full of idiots and bigots and they do not in any way symbolize the America I know and love.

[cgord31]

These stats tell you everything that is wrong with America. 59%??? That is appauling. I mean if it were 1942 and Nazi Germany ruled europe I could understand, but to fight some useless war in Iraq and Afghanistan?? Come on

[sofusmadsen]

@dumbassmoron your name fits you well

[sauroid1]

Watch Eisenhower's last speech as President. A former 5 star general who stated that the US was endangered by the military/industrial complex's growing power in this country, kind of eerie. I still can't understand why he was allowed to give this speech. The MI's budget will not be cut, and they'll get thier war on Iran. The Presidents are just puppets, the country is run by a committee, just wonder who these people really are who control this country.