Where, O, Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go...

[reprehensor]

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[serryjw]

1. Have you ever seen this?

One of my favorite websites...hope you have not had lunch!:puke: Look around.it will tell you what * is costing YOUR state in all of the above....great info for activism for 2006

http://nationalpriorities.org/

[reprehensor]

7. No...

I waited until my lunch settled.

Thanks for the warning... *GRAPHIC*

[serryjw]

10. Numbers mean nothing anymore

to the average person. They are just TOO LARGE! BUT everyone can get it when they see that this cost us teaches, healthcare for the poor, lunches for kids, MORE first responders FOR THEIR STATE!

I'm glad you waited..didn't want to ruin your lunch.

[FloridaPat]

2. During Vietnam the DOD budget use to be 50% of the budget.

What's interesting is that when you add social security, that takes 50% too. However, it is self-sustaining, which isn't mentioned when they show charts. If we pull our troops out of those 160 coountries we are in and stop invading other countries and learn to work for the betterment of the human race and not the military industrial congressional complex and US corporations, I bet we could have a lot of peace and prosterity everywhere.

[reprehensor]

3. Why do you hate America?

You damned Peace Dividender.

[FloridaPat]

4. You can take the girl out of the hippie age, but you can't take the

hippie out of the girl. Peace & love bud.

[madokie]

5. Proud assed Hippie here too, Once a hippie always a hippie

[serryjw]

11. They don't hate America

They hate Americans

[progressoid]

6. 160 countries...

Is that an accurate stat? Where could I find that info?

[FloridaPat]

8. Here's one source I found - says 135 countries and lists them.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance8.html

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Antigua
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burma
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Congo
Costa Rica
Cote D’lvoire
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji

Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala
Guinea
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Liberia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Mali
Malta
Mexico
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia and Montenegro
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovenia
Spain
South Africa
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

This means that the United States has troops in 70 percent of the world’s countries. The average American could probably not locate half of these 135 countries on a map.

To this list could be added regions like the Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia, Gibraltar, and the Atlantic Ocean island of St. Helena, all still controlled by Great Britain, but not considered sovereign countries. Greenland is also home to U.S. troops, but is technically part of Denmark. Troops in two other regions, Kosovo and Hong Kong, might also be included here, but the DOD’s "Personnel Strengths" document includes U.S. troops in Kosovo under Serbia and U.S. troops in Hong Kong under China.

Possessions of the United States like Guam, Johnston Atoll, Puerto Rico, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Virgin Islands are likewise home to U.S. troops. Guam has over 3,200.

[progressoid]

9. Wow - that's quite a list. Thanks.

[president4aday]

12. Who are we protecting Greenland from? Canadian Eskimos?