As you can see we spend more by far, 54%, on the military than anywhere else. We spend more on the military than any other country in the world. Almost 600 billion dollars a year. In fact we spend more than the next seven countries combined. Now what I can’t wrap my head around is the fact that we spend all of this money on the military and we haven’t won a war since World War II. Then when you dump the dismal terrible way that we treat our veterans, it really doesn’t make sense.
On top of that, I hear a number of these TeaNut Republicans just dying to start another war. They yammer on about all of the horrible stuff going on in the Middle East which by the way has been going on the whole 72 years I have been on this planet.
This little fact came out a few weeks ago.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 153,144 people were killed by homicide in which firearms were used between 2001 and 2013, the last year that data are available (that number excludes deaths by "legal intervention").
- The Global Terrorism Database — which uses a criteria to determine terrorist attacks but also includes acts of violence that are more ambiguous in goal — estimates that 3,046 people in the U.S. died in terrorist or possible terrorist attacks between 2001 and 2014.
I do believe something is definitely wrong here.
Stay tuned for future adventures.
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