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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:00 PM Original message |
$1.2 Trillion (That's Trillion with a T) Spent on Military While the Rest of Us Fight Over Crumbs |
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Poboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. Recommend! |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. What you fail to realize is that Obama is a master at 5 dimensional chess. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Um, you suddenly made the jump from the military to Wall Street. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Oh right, Wall Street and the MIC are two complete different groups. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Wall Street loves war because it literally destroys capital.. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:13 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. There is no difference between the MIC and Wall Street. |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
3. a Trrrrillion dollars |
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Thunderstruck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
4. Some perspective: a million seconds is 12 days. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:07 PM Response to Reply #4 |
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Poboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:11 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Can you imagine one trillion dollars? (6 pics) |
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Vehl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:49 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. wow! nt |
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Thunderstruck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 06:33 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Imagine this: In all of known human civilization from advent of agriculture |
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stockholmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 09:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
26. to further draw that out,there's over 1000 trillion($1 quadrillion) in global derivative debt |
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OneGrassRoot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
7. Ugh....K&R n/t |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
9. Holy shit..... |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
13. Suddenly I feel 1.2 trillion dollars safer, you? n/t |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
14. Big k/r |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
16. Greed being supported by lunacy. nt |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
17. I think military spending is the REAL third rail of politics |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 06:43 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. You got it. Both parties are pro-war. Defense and War are sacred. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
20. Shame on all the war profiteers, shame on all the masters of war. Both parties. |
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soryang (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
21. Defense spending is a $70 Trillion unfunded liability |
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Versailles (384 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
22. You don't even want to know some of the wasted money I see... |
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butterfly77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
23. kick.. |
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felix_numinous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
24. In return for what? |
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stockholmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
25. I posted this on Thursday, and also included an Mp3 link to interview with Hellman |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-06-11 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
27. Heh |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-07-11 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
28. Mother Jones: Bank Bailout === $14.4 Trillion |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-07-11 01:09 AM Response to Original message |
29. War Resisters League Federal Pie Chart for 2012 is available |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-07-11 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
30. if the military budget is ever cut, |
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Poboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-07-11 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
31. . |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-07-11 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
32. But don't we all feel safer. |
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