Do you know how much we spend on the military?
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Imagine if we spent half of that money helping poorer countries solve their problems, we wouldn't have to worry about any terrorists attacking us, because the world would love the US - instead of despise it! Now that's a deal!
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The military is for war not peace.\nSoldiers do not bring peace to the Earth.\nThey bring fear and death to the enemy.\nDeath is the only peace soldiers bring.\nSpending on the military for peace doesn't even sound right because it isn't right. \nSo in short the consequences of military spending for peace is  of course WAR.\nWhoever says otherwise is a salesman or a fool.
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Well the military at the lower levels have never had much in the way of a budget.  Don't get me wrong the military gets a few hundred million for missiles and large weapons.  But still have hard time stretching the budget far enought to purchase things like paper, pens, toner cartridges and toilet paper.
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In 2001, the budget had a surplus of $127 billion.\n\nHowever, the US had a national debt of $5.8 trillion that same year, so...
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mike ox big or whatever... I think she was talking about dead hero's...I can't believe that with the gigantic military spending budget we can't spare to give those soldiers a better ride home.  It really shows how much value human life(that died for our ASS!) has to our country.
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Because they don't want the American people to know exactly how much money the US is spending on the war and what they are spending it on.  I saw a "60 Minutes" story about how the US has "misplaced" $800 million in Iraq....
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$14b in the US alone. So you can imagine the amount spent worldwide.
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Sorry...I sure don't have an answer for that one.\nBut boy, can they spend big buck$$$ on war!\n\nHmmm.reminds me of a Vietnam-era poster:\n"War is Good Business - Invest Your Son".
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How much money are you spending for gas, employees, and maintence
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It is just over $8.35 trillion.  See the counter below for full details.
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I object to a lot more than just $1500 per person on the war. Just the tip of the iceberg. A lot more misspent money out there than that though.
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About 1 Trillion. See source link for more.
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You need the cost information to answer this question.  Do you have that information?
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Never, people really need to do their research on China, instead of letting the media whip them up into a frenzy. Here are some facts,China's GDP, from their so-called vaunted economy ,is a little over 3 trillion dollars per year, our GDP  is over 12 Trillion dollars per year.We are one-third of the world's economy! We spend 40% of the world's military budget at 504 Billion dollars ayear.70% of the world's military budget if you throw in our Allies. China spends 39 Billion dollars a year on their military, they won't spend 125 Billion dollars on their military until 2025! They just put a man in space, we've been doing it for 40 years. Of the two major triads of war, surface Naval craft and submarines, the Chinese basically have none of the latter, and few of the former. There is a lot of bottled up internal dissension in China, much of it over the one-child policy,and the government taking people's homes and lands to build on.They basically have no tactical nuclear weapons, and ,yes, we'd go nuclear on China. By tactical nuclear weapons I mean cruise missiles and drone and submarine launched and the like.Believe me , if China didn't already know this they would have gone after Taiwan years ago!
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The cost is, the United States is expected to supply everything. Finance everything. And our soldiers are expected to be the ones out in front. Don't believe what the liberal news media is puking out of your TV every day and night. There is no such thing.
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An estimate of what what cost?
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Do the time and find out the real facts.  70 cents of every dollar paid in taxes goes toward welfare and social service in the U.S.  Only the following thirty cents goes to infrastructure -- of that less than 7 percent goes to  defense and the bulk of that goes to local police , firemen etc, far from a militaristic imperialistic society.. If your thoughts held true, at the zenith of our military advantage, after WW II , when we had the atom bomb and no one else did, when we were producing an average of a battleship a day, we would not have stopped at Germany and Japan but continued on easily to world domination.