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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (165876)	7/12/2011 8:15:03 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 541925

How much are we fighting about? 2T-4T over 10 years? How about 3T? ($881B- $300B) x 10 years = $3T. For FY 2012, the President requested $553 billion for the Department of Defense Base Budget. This was only $4 billion more than the $548.9 billion requested in FY 2011, and $20 billion more than the $533.7 billion requested in FY 2010. Total Defense Spending: However, total defense spending requested for FY 2012 was $881, less than the $895 billion requested in the FY 2011 budget. This was more than the $855 billion requested for FY 2010, and the Security and the War on Terror request of $782 billion in FY 2009. It includes Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Nuclear Administration and some State Department programs. Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq are are also funded outside the Department of Defense base budget, to the tune of $118 billion.(Source: OMB,FY 2012 Budget, Table S-3) useconomy.about.com $581B is still a lot of money. Eric Cantor, where is my SS check?