Using official budget figures, William D. Hartung, Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York, provides a number of helpful comparisons:

• Proposed U.S. military spending for FY 2008 is larger than military spending by all of the other nations in the world combined.

• At $141.7 billion, this year’s proposed spending on the Iraq war is larger than the military budgets of China and Russia combined. Total U.S. military spending for FY2008 is roughly ten times the military budget of the second largest military spending country in the world, China.

• Proposed U.S. military spending is larger than the combined gross domestic products (GDP) of all 47 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

• The FY 2008 military budget proposal is more than 30 times higher than all spending on State Department operations and non-military foreign aid combined.

• The FY 2008 military budget is over 120 times higher than the roughly $5 billion per year the U.S. government spends on combating global warming.

• The FY 2008 military spending represents 58 cents out of every dollar spent by the U.S. government on discretionary programs: education, health, housing assistance, international affairs, natural resources and environment, justice, veterans’ benefits, science and space, transportation, training/employment and social services, economic development, and several more items.[2] Global Research

Are you sick of this yet? Do you know what these number really represent? While Americans by the millions are homeless in their own country, our defense spending continues unabated, unchecked and often, unsupervised. Billions of dollars are missing in Iraq. The US government’s and “defense” industries priorities should be obvious. You and your family are not included in those numbers either, unless you’re unfortunate enough to get sucked into the bloody vortex of blood for oil.

There are countless examples of this type of malfeasance occuring within our government. Is this what America wants? Is this what the people want?

Assuming (against all odds), that life as we know it would manage to stay afloat for several hundred more years, that’s how long it would take to pay off our current military spending. You’re great, great, great, great, great grandchildren have already been sold into slavery. Comforting thought, isn’t it?

Everyone heard that “freedom isn’t free”, but let’s be honest here - THIS ISN’T FREEDOM. It’s not even close. It’s subjugation on a global scale. It’s massive human suffering of incaculable proportions. It’s planetary RAPE and widespread destruction. It’s all dressed up in a patriotic red, white and blue so that you don’t notice the blood dripping on the floor. It’s a lie of an incredible proportion that you’re supposed to pretend isn’t a lie.

It’s disgusting, vile and obscene, and it’s your legacy.