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This Is Where Each of Your 1.421 Trillion Dollars Is Going In 2010

source: http://gizmodo.com/5320681/this-is-where-each-of-your-1421-trillion-dollars-is-going-in-2010

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Want to know where your tax money is going next year? Here's more than you can handle in the new 2010 edition of the Death and Taxes poster. Zoom in to see how much those F-35 fighters and lasers cost.

The Death and Taxes poster shows every single expense according to the president's 2010 budget request. The circles you see here are proportional in size to their actual weight in the total budget. Each of the figures include the percentage change compared to 2009.


Defense spending is more or less the same, only increasing by 2%. And still, everything else looks minuscule.



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25 comments // This Is Where Each of Your 1.421 Trillion Dollars Is Going In 2010

  • KSirys
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      KSirys  

    • I need to get myself into DC... did you see the salaries they are paying out?? Sorry folks! but I'm getting myself involved into politics!!

      No wonder 200+ politicians are millionaires!!

    • 2 years ago
  • Ozzykozzy2
  • Ragan
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      Ragan  

    • No one ever mentions the moneys going to the pentagon for what they call defense spending. Our economy has for years been unquestionable and uncontrolled. We have never been invaded and still our peace once cost billions and now it is up in the trillions. Our economy has been a wartime spending spree and has nothing to do with keeping the peace. It could ne defined as exporting war instead of peace. All of this wartime technology could have been spent on scientific endeavors toward expanding our horizons in space and safety from a real enemy like asteroid invasion from space. This is a deadlier enemy than the al queda. While USA is spending on outrageous military not to mention the cost of blood spilled and the atrocious number of fatal injuries from these wars, and we are paying Russia for the use of their space program, the European Space Agency is spending its monies on space researce and the LHC at Cern. We should be admitting that we are not a super power any more. We are straddled with a ridiculous multi trillion dollar debt that we will never be able to catch up to in a thousand years. Our only salvation is to declare total bankkruptcy and tell the word we are wiping the slate clean and starting over. I caint see the world accepting that, but I can see Obama signing the entire Federation of the USA over to the global community in Copenhagen this month just like Lord Moncton said. The end of the USA. And then you will see that Obama is in reality one of the elite wealthy Global world boys.

    • 2 years ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • Image

    • Hmmm, fancy that. I always figured that 63 % for the military (and even that is financed with such a colossal debt that they have to counterfeit more bills than there are coins to redeem them to cover it...) meant that we are still in a permanent state of WW2. That is, we're not still producing 8,332 B24 Liberator bombers, but rather 8 Stealth bombers at the same price adjusted for the inflation that wasting $$$ on the military drains from us, because though we stopped the Axis, we lost the last World War. Hitler's objectives were to dominate the world with nuclear weapons. We've accomplished that, and all the nuclear proliferation that's resulted. Witness the current conflict with Iran that's made the other nuclear powers insecure. 2/3 for the military and 1/3 for the People and home is exactly the opposite of what should be. We've been subverted by people selling out to the military. We're in a time warp where we're in a permanent state of no demobilization. There's simply some other crisis which replaces the last one that keeps us deluded into thinking we're still in a defensive war fighting for our very existence. George Orwell's book 1984 was based on the "war without end" scenario. After Dub'ya, who expressed admiration for Hitler and was a Hitler clone, used terrorism in the place of communism,(in the place of himself as Hitler) and foisted the Patriot Act on us to make the Flunkie Bureau of Insects into a Gestapo, our 2009 is still Orwell's 1984 because it's consistent with the Un American activities attacking the Constitution that haven't been rolled back yet. So we are sadled with the equivalent of a paramilitary civil war. Witness the police oppression of protesters at the G20 summit in Pittsburg, where Pennsylvania is the home of the Liberty Bell, Benjamin Franklin, and the Constitutional Convention, and compare. The arms race is about the only thing that's flourishing during the current world recession. It's the national tragedy that the USA sells more arms to other countries than any other country. Current.com featured an article on that I blogged this year. Being known as the merchants of death is nothing to be proud of. We may as well load up those $1,421 Trillions of wasted money into a deep space rocket and launch it into the Black Hole located in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy for all the good that our time and work done to produce all that wasted wealth will accomplish. Back in the early 1970s, Graham Nash released a song that starts out with " Military madness is killing my country..." As John Melancamp sang too: "It's the simple man,baby, that pays the bills for bullets that kill". As that Civil War general's telling quote went: "We have met the enemy, and it's us" Maybe somone should have realized that not everything's meant to be for sale. That's why we have a soul..Why do you think those Fascist monsters are so afraid of M.J. ? They know the sacred herb would end their tyrany. And their agressive criminal insanity would be seen for the disease it is. No amount of health care reform will ever cure their Fascism disease.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ajil
  • samthesixth
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      samthesixth  

    • Awesome post. Now we can all see that both parties are totally corrupt and chowing at the trough that the taxpayers fill. Truth in numbers.

    • 2 years ago
  • CreditFigaro
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      CreditFigaro  
    • samthesixth:

      If it weren't for you warmongers on the right, we wouldn't be in these shit hole wars in the first place. There is absolutely no room to pretend that the democrats are as bad as republicans on this.

      Speaking of truth in numbers... you have systematically proven yourself a hypocrite based on your response to that MIT analysis of the health bill. Are you ever going to respond to me, there, trolly trolly?

    • 2 years ago
  • samthesixth
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      samthesixth  
    • samthesixth:

      Credit,

      I am not a warmonger. I don't know where you get that impression. I am for pulling the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan right away. Go back and read my posts and you will see the consistency in my position.

      As far as your jab from the MIT posting I will have to go back and read what you said. Most of the time, you do not engage in debate, only finger pointing and name calling. It is quite possible that I did not respond to you as there was no substance to debate. However, as you have called me out, I will go back and reread what was posted.

      With age and experience you will come to see that despite your most ardent wishes, both parties are corporatist, non-progressive, and ultimately against you and me.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ozzykozzy2
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      Ozzykozzy2  
    • samthesixth:

      he's correct though, both parties tossed aside the middle class like rag dolls in exchange for sleeping with corporate giants, why do you think its taking so damn long to get off of oil? popular opinion doesn't mater nearly as much as buying off the next president of the united states, only reason obama won was cuz the corporations gave his campaign hefty donations, coupled with the youth surge planted him in office, unable to change anything due to the favors he owe's the corporations. defense contractors get most of that military spending in backroom contracts, by the way. all started with Reagen and the union crackdown. changed the entire corporate structure and made american products second rate till the modern age.

    • 2 years ago
  • CreditFigaro
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      CreditFigaro  
    • samthesixth:

      Who knows, maybe they will prove to be so. I can respect your experience on that.

      I'd like to think that I'm a pretty engaging member. I don't feel like I do these things you say I do. (name calling and lack of engagement in debate)

      Please, do call me out if you see me doing such things.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ozzykozzy2
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      Ozzykozzy2  
    • samthesixth:

      look what im trying to say is, our politicians are no longer representing us, they are representing corporate growth in their respective districts. elephants and asses fucking the masses.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ozzykozzy2
  • CreditFigaro
  • samthesixth
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      samthesixth  
    • samthesixth:

      There are some, but the party itself is corporatist and against the people. It's the same thing we have been seeing regardless of which party occupies the White House. It is profit above people.

    • 2 years ago
  • CreditFigaro
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      CreditFigaro  

    • The proof is in the pudding, and here is the pudding.

      What would you all like to bitch about?

      I can start with: DOD spending. The percentage figures next to the numbers are misleading. What really matters when it comes to defense spending is the expansion of the military budget and the VA.

      The DOD budget was about 250 Billion dollars when Clinton left office. Now, it's 900 Billion!! You wonder where all of that public debt came from? how about 8 years of unpaid DOD expansion. That, alone, accounts for about (very roughly and conservatively) $3 Trillion of the debt. Throw in some tax cuts and a prescription drug bill and you have explained the majority of national debt.

      I still can't stand that Obama is further expanding the military. We need to be out of these wars and we need to reduce the budget of the military. I am tired of having an exhausted, overextended, wasteful military force. This is NOT what we need if something catastrophic actually did happen.

    • 2 years ago
  • grassroutes
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • CreditFigaro:

      Good point. Considering how Dub' ya mishandled Katrina, If something even more catastrophic did happen, the USA would be screwed, blued, and tatooed. And we may as well have bar codes on our necks. People are right to blame the recession on that Hitler clone Bush Jr. His Piracy R US regime did permanent damage to this country. The Reagan, Bush sr, Bush jr trend of military madness already has us bankrupted. If noone buys their crippling debt, hyperinflation will plunge this country into a Depression. As that former Congressperson was recently quoted as having said, we should be focusing on trade wars, and not foreign wars to right ourselves.

    • 2 years ago
  • CreditFigaro
  • Ozzykozzy2
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      Ozzykozzy2  
    • CreditFigaro:

      clinton was an economist, but was not on the side of the middle class, gave tax breaks to encourage domestic infrastructure development, and sent our military straight to shit, lost the football, and set the stage for todays economic crisis by deregulating the housing market thus resulting in the explosion of suburban american housing. we are fucking stupid.

    • 2 years ago
  • CreditFigaro
    • 0
      CreditFigaro  
    • CreditFigaro:

      Clinton may have set the stage, but Bush directed, produced, filled all of the leading roles and conducted the music.

      Was our military inadequate to respond to the terrorist attacks of 9/11? NO.

      It is now, though.

      Think about it.

    • 2 years ago
  • Sexirobot
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  

    • now all we need is the broken down version showing the salaries and bonuses where the DOD is spending our money...that's where it gets even more interesting...

      nice post!

    • 2 years ago
  • CreditFigaro
  • bushama
  • bushama
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