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ledwix · 04-30-2008, 07:00 PM

According to this federal budget pie chart (http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm, not sure how reliable the source is), defense spending, by itself, outweighs the sum of spending in education, transportation, veterans benefits, administration of justice, natural resources, environment, foreign affairs, agriculture, energy, community and regional development, and science and technology.

Many of the aforementioned programs could have seen more than twice the funding without a war. Think how great it'd be to double the federal spending on education or scientific research or anything.

We're still living in an ancient world >__< run by primitive practices and principles.

04-30-2008, 07:00 PM	#8
ledwix Giant Pi Operator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: California Age: 33 Posts: 2,878	Re: Imagine what we couldve done with the money we spent in iraq According to this federal budget pie chart (http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm, not sure how reliable the source is), defense spending, by itself, outweighs the sum of spending in education, transportation, veterans benefits, administration of justice, natural resources, environment, foreign affairs, agriculture, energy, community and regional development, and science and technology. Many of the aforementioned programs could have seen more than twice the funding without a war. Think how great it'd be to double the federal spending on education or scientific research or anything. We're still living in an ancient world >__< run by primitive practices and principles. Last edited by ledwix; 04-30-2008 at 07:07 PM..