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Originally Posted by KirStang
Well, IIRC, ~20% of the national budget is on the military, ~20%is on medicaid/medicare type benefits, and another ~20% on social security. So all three should face cuts to produce a meaningful reduction in spending.
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All things considered, the national security state easily costs over a trillion dollars in the 2012 budget.
Military budget of the United States - Budget Breakdown for 2012 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And the "net interest" proportion of the budget? Much of that is from military expenditures.
National security debt. It's a killer.
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