Obama's Budget Revealed: Money for Wars and Weapons While More Americans Face Joblessness and Hunger

[Joanne98]

The latest federal budget opens the American public to yet more pain, while shielding the military and the rest of the national security establishment from the same.

Send up a flare! The 2011 federal budget has sprung some leaks in the midst of a storm. Not sure there's enough money for life rafts! Forget women and children first!

Buffeted by economic hard times, the 2,585-page, $3.8 trillion document is already taking on water, though this won’t be obvious to you if you’re reading the mainstream media. Let’s start with the absolute basics: 59% of the budget’s spending is dedicated to mandatory programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, Social Security, and now Pell Grants; 34% is to be spent on “discretionary programs,” including education, transportation, housing, and the military; 7% will be used to service the national debt.

A serious look at this budget document reveals some “leaks” -- two in actual spending practices and two in the basic assumptions that undergird the budget itself. Ship-shape as it may look on the surface, this is a budget perilously close to an iceberg, and it’s not clear whether the captain of the ship will heed the obvious warning signs.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/145857/obama%27s_budget_revealed%3A_money_for_wars_and_weapons%2C_while_more_americans_face_joblessness_and_hunger

[tekisui]

1. The War Machine is more important than Americans to Obama.

The proof is in the pudding.

[BeFree]

4. Well

Who would you fear more? The DoD or the DoDU?

[msongs]

2. good thing banks n wall street are also being held accountable lolololol nt

[Double T]

3. Outa here in 2012!

Enough of these lemming leaders of the military industrial complex, wall street and the criminal corporations.

[Vidar]

5. Our kinder, gentler war criminal.