TheGoodShepherd
February 14th, 2007, 2:33:15 PM
The Fiscal Year 2008 budget request includes $930 billion for discretionary spending (the money the President and Congress must decide and act to spend each year), roughly $481 billion of which will go to the Pentagon.
The "National Defense" category of the federal budget for FY'08 accounts for over half of all discretionary spending (52 percent). [NOTE: These totals do NOT include funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the $141.7 billion requested for the "Global War on Terror" were included in both the request for the Department of Defense and the total for discretionary spending, the percentage of Pentagon spending of total discretionary spending would jump to over 58 percent.]
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The above shows just how out of hand military spending has gotten. I mean 60% of discretionary spending goes to defense; that's abosultely insane, unreasonable and needs to be reduced immediately.
**Source: DoD, Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Request, February 2007.
The "National Defense" category of the federal budget for FY'08 accounts for over half of all discretionary spending (52 percent). [NOTE: These totals do NOT include funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the $141.7 billion requested for the "Global War on Terror" were included in both the request for the Department of Defense and the total for discretionary spending, the percentage of Pentagon spending of total discretionary spending would jump to over 58 percent.]
http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/i/a/2278.gif
The above shows just how out of hand military spending has gotten. I mean 60% of discretionary spending goes to defense; that's abosultely insane, unreasonable and needs to be reduced immediately.
**Source: DoD, Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Request, February 2007.