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To: Road Walker who wrote (217177)	2/3/2005 8:31:01 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572319

Even with military retirement and medical care, homeland security, spending on fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military related spending in the DOE, you still don't get close to 50%. I guess if you don't count social security and medicare as part of the budget, and then you count any spending that is even vaguely related to the military you could come up with a figure like 50% but there doesn't seem much point in calculating the percentages that way unless your whole aim is to make the number as big as possible. Tim

To: Road Walker who wrote (217177)	2/3/2005 9:01:12 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572319

JF, Careful. "Defense" may not include military entitlements, Homeland Security, Iraq, other stuff. There are those that claim military is 50%. I did include Homeland Security as part of defense. None of the other line items in the form I have seemed to relate to defense. Of course, I have to assume that the figures I have are accurate, that there isn't much more funny accounting going on besides the inclusion of SS in the general budget. Tenchusatsu