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Who gives a shit about the defense budget? At least it does something.

All these other fucked up fuckin programs are fucked.

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Originally Posted by Uncle Mxy

That's exactly my point -- not ALL that money is going to more guns, missiles, tanks, and shit. The Internet was a DoD budget item for decades. DoD is such an institution that an awful lot of crap only very loosely related to "defense" ends up there. The DoD appropriations happen independently of most other budget items and, in fact, have already happened for next year. The military industrial complex is... complex.

Ok, well, umm - I don't wanna run your country anyway.

I hate to disagree with Mxy (especially with the probability of his pulling out numbers to own my ass), but the question I would ask is how much of that huge number goes to that other R&D type stuff and how much is spent on the traditional war machine things.

And I do care about military spending. It seems about as wasteful as any other area, if not more so, and I honestly don't believe it always "does something".

There's a fair bit of oddly-scattergorized stuff hidden behind the DoD budget, by design. Check out the act for yourself:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/.../~c111eVeBMu::

You tell me -- are chiropractor clinical trials something the DoD should do for defense? In some cases, the spending is possitioned as "national security", but the relationship is tenuous at best, mostly designed to slip into the DoD budget which nobody can deny. You have to follow the money, and the bill is simply a starting point. "Maintain xyz missile program" equates to "upgrade a bunch of computers which happen to be in the general vicinity of missiles."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=120540125

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Originally Posted by Uncle Mxy

There's a fair bit of oddly-scattergorized stuff hidden behind the DoD budget, by design. Check out the act for yourself:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/.../~c111eVeBMu::

You tell me -- are chiropractor clinical trials something the DoD should do for defense? In some cases, the spending is possitioned as "national security", but the relationship is tenuous at best, mostly designed to slip into the DoD budget which nobody can deny. You have to follow the money, and the bill is simply a starting point. "Maintain xyz missile program" equates to "upgrade a bunch of computers which happen to be in the general vicinity of missiles."

Is this the right link? I can't get it to work.

Doh! It looks like one of those temporary "result of a search" links that exists for a short time but not long enough to be useful. Try:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.2647:

Basically, there's oodles of sections, and some of it is self-referential. A few will stand out as clearly being "that's a military function?". Others you have to dig a bit to find out what the real deal is. Sometimes, it smacks you in the face if you think about it. Today, I read something about how the Army Corps of Engineers' civil works failures make them liable for Katrina damage. Check out just how much of the USACE budget is for civil work vs. military work... it's non-trivial.

This fuck is another murdering jihadist and you libs will all be crying about what 'we' did wrong to cause this.

Jeezas y'all are sumpin.

Quick question Tahoe:

Are all muslims terrorists?

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Originally Posted by Pharaoh

Quick question Tahoe:

Are all muslims terrorists?

You just fuckin surpased Mxy with his dumbass sentence.

You fuckin guys are...frankly the most prejudice peeps in the world.