Now lets look at this:
Rank | Country | Military expenditures (USD) | Date of information | |
---|---|---|---|---|
— | World Total | 1,470,000,000,000 | 2008[2] | |
— | NATO Total | 1,049,875,309,000 | [citation needed] | |
1 | United States | 651,163,000,000 | 2009[3][4] | |
— | European Union Total | 312,259,000,000 | 2008-2009 | |
2 | People's Republic of China | 70,132,100,000 | 2009[5] | |
3 | France | 68,135,700,000 | 2008-2009[6] | |
4 | United Kingdom | 63,479,100,000 | FY 2009-10[7] | |
5 | Japan | 48,860,000,000 | 2008[8] | |
6 | Germany | 45,930,000,000 | 2008[9] | |
7 | Italy | 40,050,000,000 | 2008[10] | |
8 | Russian Federation | 39,600,000,000 | 2009[11] | |
9 | India | 32,700,000,000 | 2009-2010[12] | |
10 | Saudi Arabia | 31,050,000,000 | 2008[13] |
Anyone think we need more butter and less guns? We spend nearly 10x that of our closest competitor, China. Maybe if we only spent three times as much as them, we could close out budget gap.
What does everyone else think about this?
2 comments:
"What does everyone else think about this?" -- Yes, it's too high. It should be $0.
No, I'm not joking.
But in the mean time, I'd support any effort to reduce it by a reasonably large amount.
Yeah, it's just silly. Our "Defense" spending is pretty ridiculous, and that is even before we take into account the moral implications of military interventions, invasions, regime changes, imperialism etc abroad.
One of things that is bothering me about Obama is that while hes is preaching increasing our domestic spending, he shows now intentions of decreasing our military spending by any meaningful amount. Like Bush, it seems hes just going to grow the government in both directions.
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