Defense spending exceeds almost all other Agency spending combined

[LSK]

Here is a breakdown of the 2006 budget:

$18.5 billion Agriculture and Rural Development
$30.1 billion Energy and Water Development
$20.7 billion Foreign Operations
$30.5 billion Homeland Security
$25.9 billion Interior and Environment
$141.8 billion Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education
$3.8 billion Legislative Branch
$45.2 billion Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs
$58.7 billion Science, State, Justice, and Commerce
$68.8 billion Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, Judiciary, and District of Columbia
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$443.7 billion

All these added up ALMOST do not exceed military spending.

$399.2 billion Defense

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/tables.html

Table S-4

[FormerDittoHead]

1. Hey, don't you know there's no WASTE in the MILITARY???????????? n/t

[Oversea Visitor]

2. What a waste of money in a peaceful world

But hey they intended the world to be peaceful
What then would justified all this spending?
After all spending on people is pure waste of good money to be make by them.

America long gone down drain of not for the people but for self.
Imagine an America that have use the fund spend on military instead spend on the people and country.
Whee you be close to PARADISE
But heck reality is a bitch.

[rurallib]

3. Soon - very soon - debt service will be the largest single line item

Isn't that sick? Fuckhead has spent us so far into debt that interest payments will choke everything else! Sounds like a family that can't get off the credit card and someday we all will pay.

[LSK]

4. yes, I didnt include that on my list but i think its in the 350-400B range

Interest payments to the debt making other countries richer off us.

[anarch]

5. nonsense...they don't spend that money on "defense"

Those funds are for aggressive, illegal invasions and bombings.

[LSK]

6. ok, they should change it to "offense"

[Massacure]

7. The U.S. spends about two and a half trillion dollars.

To say we only spend 443.7 billion is off by a factor of about 5.