Military Spending and Homelessness

The National Coalition for the Homeless tells us these sad facts:


The President’s Budget request for FY10 suggests giving the Department of Defense a budget of $533.7 billion. (Wait, it gets worse!). Another 130 billion is designated for the current actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The total is more like 708 billion, when you add in the Department of Energy spending which is Defense related.

Want to know how much they're going to spend on homelessness? This is for 2010.

$1.7 billion for homeless assistance grants.

The biggest expenditure for housing in the Federal budget goes to middle class home-owners, who get a tax break for the interest they pay on their homes. Billions of dollars are given away in this way. And yes, we would squawk if we had to give that up.

Woe to us. Judgement coming.