conservatives have all this outrage for a section of our budget that is less then 2%, while military spending is up to over 48%.
2006-08-02 07:29:28 · 11 answers · asked by david c 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
since it is poor people fighting this war, I guess they consider military spending to be welfare spending!
A.Marie needs some help with math...it isn't 2 % of your check, it's 2 % of the budget.
Hey screwed, aren't medicaid medicare and social security paid DIRECTLY by our payroll taxes? I don't think that is part of the budget, it is paid directly by the tax payers.
2006-08-02 07:33:45 · answer #1 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
See - liberals try to make everything sound so inconsequential - that it doesn't matter if we throw a couple hundred billion dollars a year on wasteful programs - because liberals believe that the tax money should not be ours to begin with - that the government deserves to have our money, and that they will decide how it is spent. Liberals don't care how much things cost - they are able to minimize American tax dollars into a little thing like 2% - we shouldn't worry about that, because the money shouldn't end up in our hands anyway, it really belongs to government.
Military is a sound investment for our country, it protects our freedom and security.
2006-08-02 14:51:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are some real numbers. Even leaving out International, it's 923 B which is almost as much as the military. Of course the corp of engineers does a lot of civilian work, so it's not all guns and tanks.
Department of Health and Human Services ... ... 403 B
Department of Housing and Urban Development 414 B .
International Assistance Programs .... .... .... .... 523 B
Social Security Administration ..... .... .... .... .... ...106 B (and that doesn't include the checks that goes out)
TOTAL ................................................................ 1446 B
Department of Defense-Military 726 B
Corps of Engineers ----------------187 B
Other Defense—Civil Programs 102 B
TOTAL --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1015 B
Get your facts straight
2006-08-02 14:49:13 · answer #3 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Id personally give the 2% if I can have the 48% back.
2006-08-02 14:33:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What percentage would you spend on the Safety of America if you were president? I'd rather they take the 2% and teach the poor than to just give them free stuff. Give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
2006-08-02 14:39:00 · answer #5 · answered by danzahn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats probably because any military operation costs millions every day so the Iraq has been very costly.
2006-08-02 14:33:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excuse me, but under what category do you put Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security payments?
2006-08-02 14:34:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Welfare keeps people alive.
2006-08-02 14:42:38 · answer #8 · answered by Balthor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2% of our budget!!! THAT IS MASSIVE AMOUNT OF MONEY GIVEN TO PEOPLE NOT WORKING!!!
Without our military budge where it is, you would be typing this in a different language.
2006-08-02 14:34:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And that is 2% too much.
2006-08-02 14:34:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋