First of all, the cost of the war is mostly outside the expenditures for defense....combine the two and you have a mighty big percentage.
No you don't. Its lower then it was during most of the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70's and 80's.
Tim, do you understand that I don't care that the American defense budget is only slightly less outrageous than it was 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago? Its still outrageous and unnecessary.
Secondly, you can play with percentages all you want but the reality is fiscally the US house is in serious disorder.
No in serious disorder, and even if it was the majority of the blame would belong to where the majority of money is spent. That's not on Iraq, nor even on the total spent on defense (including the supplementals)
To echo, CJ, why are you fooling yourself? America fiscally is in serious trouble.......most of our debt is owned by foreign countries some of whom are not friendly to us. The first balanced budgets were under Clinton but they went by the wayside when the cowboy from TX took over. Our national debt is huge and growing. Meanwhile the American infrastructure is old and deteriorating quickly. Get out of denial, Tim. |
