Re: Reality Check: Entitlement Spending Dwarfs Wars Since 2001 - 65% - 19%

so Lew you want us to see starving people die on the streets



On 5/27/12, lew <lewcoop@aol.com> wrote:
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> Reality Check: Entitlement Spending Dwarfs Wars Since 2001 - 65% - 19%
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> Kate Hicks
> Townhall.com
> May 27, 2012 09:11 AM EST
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> Some bad news for the vehement anti-war set: they've lost the spending
> argument. A new chart reveals that in the last decade, spending on
> national security, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined paled in comparison
> to entitlement spending -- 19% to 65%,
>
> "About 65 percent of federal expenditures over the last ten years have
> gone towards entitlements,"Paul Miller writes. "By comparison, about
> 15 percent has gone towards national defense, excluding the wars in
> Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq has cost three percent, and only about one
> percent has gone towards the war in Afghanistan (including the cost of
> ongoing military operations and all reconstruction and stabilization
> assistance combined), according to my analysis of figures from OMB."
>
> In other words, Miller says, "Afghanistan is the second-cheapest
> major war in U.S. history as a percentage of GDP, according to the
> Congressional Research Service."
>
> And of course, it's worth noting that war spending is about to
> decline, as our efforts abroad wind down, but entitlement spending
> will only grow as more people retire. For all President Obama's talk
> of a cheaper, "leaner" military, that's clearly not the area in need
> of a trimming.
>
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