Top 10 Military Spenders in 2008 (in billions of dollars)1. United States — $607.02
2. China — $84.93
3. France — $65.74
4. United Kingdom — $65.35
5. Russia — $58.66
6. Germany — $46.87
7. Japan — $46.38
8. Italy — $40.69
9. Saudi Arabia — $38.210
10. India — $30.0
From the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) annual report on global military spending
Just gaze at those numbers for a moment.....how is it possible that Osama bin Laden is a threat to the U.S.?
Why is the U.S. now militarily surrounding Russia and China? How many in that list above are U.S. allies?
Is it any wonder that the roads and bridges in America are falling apart and that our public schools have to turn to the Pentagon for funding?
Is it possible to have a military empire and still build a loving and caring nation at home?
What does it say about the soul of America when we spend 54% of every federal tax dollar on the military while the public remains virtually silent about that very fact?
How is it possible to have a functioning democracy when both mainstream political parties are heavily funded by the same weapons corporations that receive this massive amount of money from Congress?
Why doesn't the media talk more about this breakdown in democracy and huge war funding?
Have we become hard-hearted about the fact that we live in a killing culture here in America?
Are we still human?
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