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

How many starvation deaths have there been in the U.S. in the last 30
years?

On May 27, 7:10 pm, EARL DOYLE <lesjul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> so Lew you want us to see starving people die on the streets
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> On 5/27/12, lew <lewc...@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%,
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> > "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."
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> >  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."
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> > 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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