Friday, May 6, 2011

Just how much money?

A friend handed me this brochure, based on President Obama's 2012 federal discretionary budget, sent to Congress in February 2011. Percentages are rounded.

Military, Department of Defense, War, Veterans Affairs, and Nuclear Weapons programs = 60%
Health and Human Services = 7%
Education = 6%
State Department = 5%
on down to
Transportation = 1%

Dwight D. Esienhower said: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

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