The Insane Military Spending

[Beowulf]

Yeah, I know this is old news, but I felt like posting it anyway.

13 Facts About Military Spending That Will Make Your Head Explode

This always makes me want to puke.

 

[netrox]

worth repeating. it's insane, truly.

We need smarter and more efficiency, not bigger and fatter.

 

[JoeyDeafNinja]

At least, Obama planning to withdrawal 10,000 troops.

 

[jillio]

Disgusting.

 

[darkdog]

A few questionable "facts" I could find right away.

Each day in Afghanistan costs the government more than it did to build the entire Pentagon

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I don't think the author adjusted for inflation. According to the link, the Pentagon cost $80 million in 1943. It would be around $1 billion today. We're not spending $1 billion a day in Afghanistan. It's nothing close to that much.

In 2008, the Pentagon spent more money every five seconds in Iraq than the average American earned in a year

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By my calculation, that would be over $300 billion a year for Iraq. That's a bit closer than the last one, but it's still pretty far off by about a factor of 2.

We're spending in the ballpark of about $150 billion to $200 billion a year on both wars combined. That's still a lot of money, but this article's exaggerating, at least on those two points.

 

[Jiro]

That's still a lot of money, but this article's exaggerating, at least on those two points.

yep.