Sunday, March 6, 2011

A Picture's Worth Half a Trillion Dollars


How many people in this country are aware of this?
And if so, how many do you think give a damn?
And these are FY 2006 figures. 
We're five horrendously expensive years beyond this picture.

What the United States spends on the military is more than the
rest of the world combined.


Source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation,http://old.armscontrolcenter.org/archives/002279.php; our graph uses a more comparable figure of $515 from actual 2006 U.S. military spending.

3 comments:

Montag said...

Everyone knows it. That's why we're so great! Weaponry!

Unknown said...

You really think everyone knows it? I think you give the average Americans far too much credit.

Unknown said...

I was completely unaware of Sweden's material aid to the Nazis, and I appreciate your bringing it to my attention. Your post proves once again, the true darkness that inhabits the human soul.