FY '05 Discretionary Budget Request (a pic is worth 1,000 words):

[elehhhhna]

[elehhhhna]

1. And: Military Spending by Nation

[formercia]

4. So why is Iran such a big threat?

When they only spend 5.1 Billion. Sweden spends more than they do.

[chknltl]

6. Outside of blond haired, blue eyed folks,

what does Sweden have that bushco needs? Does Iran have any natural resources? Things which make me say hmmmm....

[seemunkee]

9. Add them all together

minus North Korea to equal what the US spends. As much as 23 other nations. And we don't have health care or affordable college tuitions.

[Deja Q]

2. But wasn't pretzeldent shrimpyballs* hyping up increasing alt. energy just

TWO WEEKS AGO?!

He knows he's a load of steaming cattle cack. He wants us to think there's a chance.

[chknltl]

3. Nominated and ABSOF***INGLUTELY LOVED these charts!!! nt

[Tesla]

5. Thanks for this!!

Nominated and sent on!!!!

[Just Me]

7. A tell all table. Excellent!!!

:yourock:

Thank you for posting!!! :hi:

[elehhhhna]

8. Thanks for the rec's! Just doing my duty.

[elehhhhna]

10. Why do threads cool as soon as they hit the Greatest page?

[chknltl]

12. Can you come up with similar charts for:

1935 - 1945? Now that would be doubly interesting indeed!

[Toots]

19. Do you think this is a comparable era?

World War II was just a tiny bit more involved than Iraq don't you think.

[chknltl]

24. I sense many comparisons/contrasts

I look to history's comparisons in making my case to those I feel may need to be informed about things I feel are happening in the world today. Do you suppose that history can grant one knowledge on how to plan out courses of action? I do. Take for example, the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. Perhaps one can glean from studies of this time and those people their successes as well as their mistakes. This information is available to all who would look, Neocons are not stupid, otherwise they would not be an issue. It should be common knowledge that successfully Democracy requires an informed electorate. It has becomes quite apparent to me from my research here in the DU and elsewhere that America is drifting further and further away from having an informed electorate. I attribute this to the news-media being held in check by those who hold considerable power in America today, those we call the Neocons. Without the Internet where would we be? The Internet is a major contrast because it still grants those who are willing to look, the ability to become informed. There, that was a comparison/contrast between Nazi Germany and modern America. I feel those same tools that the Nazi party used to overpower their own people can and are being used by the secretive Neocon party today. Their in a nutshell is my partial rant as to why I am seeking the info I asked about. I will likely do that research myself, who knows what I may find. How interesting would it be if charts similar to what we have seen in this thread were found for 1935, showing Germany in the overwhelming lead positions instead of America? I have my suspicions....

[LisaLynne]

11. Aaarrrgggghhhh!!

It's not like I haven't seen that info before, but it's still sickening every time I do. Who exactly are we afraid of? Why are we so insecure that we need to spend that much on the military -- that much more than anybody else, or everybody else put together, pretty much. What is our problem????

[mopinko]

13. and yet

we can't take over a country the size of california! what's wrong with this picture.

[elehhhhna]

14. Follow the money.

[mopinko]

16. not hard to do .

malfunctioning patriot missiles, with a failure rate of 50%, at $14 mil per, with technology equivalent to a commador 64. when people ask me who i think is really in charge in this government, i tell them just what you said- follow the money. over 50% of your tax dollars go to these nutjobs, and i wonder if they could take over a kindergarten. can you say kleptocracy?

[elehhhhna]

22. Kleptocracy, alright! They make Mobutu look like a piker!

[Egalitariat]

15. Self Delete****

deleted**

[Toots]

17. And you don't even show the interest paid on National Debt

That is even more than the Military budget and it is the one that we can eliminate with sound fiscal policy. All of the other added together only add up to 399 billion. Military spending is more than all other spending combined except of course the Debt Expense.

[LSK]

18. 321 billion could pay for much of national health care nt

[lonestarnot]

20. lovely, just lovely...

[sinkingfeeling]

21. Looks like an Empire to me!! Wonder what happened to all those

other empires...Rome, Alexandar's, the Nazis, USSR?

[CrispyQ]

23. I'm so surprised to see

military at the top & energy at the bottom. NOT!


This is an excellent graph. I'm sending it & the other one to everyone I know.

[BrightKnight]

25. The budget of a Christian nation - n/t