[Eug]

We all know that the $100 million budget reduction is just window dressing, but this video nicely illustrates this:

Not so many pennies

P.S. Perhaps the guy who created the video should use those pennies for hiring a maid. That would make the video look nicer, and would be a nice local one-time stimulus package too.

[smacintush]

It's not even GOOD window dressing. It's a joke.

[Railroader]

That video quite illustrates the issue very well.

[hyteckit]

US national defense budget: $650 billion

Lets cut $100 billion off of that. That's a good cut.

[hyteckit]

Where your money goes?

http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm

$1,449 billion towards Military spending?

[Eug]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

Where your money goes?

http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm

$1,449 billion towards Military spending?

WarResisters.org

Hmmm... I'm no fan of that war, but I'll have to take that link with a grain of salt.

[hyteckit]

Originally Posted by Eug 

WarResisters.org

Hmmm... I'm no fan of that war, but I'll have to take that link with a grain of salt.

Dude, it's not that hard to verify the numbers.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/USbudget/fy09/browse.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/

[Eug]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

Dude, it's not that hard to verify the numbers.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/USbudget/fy09/browse.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/

Dude, that WarResister's own site description states they're fudging the numbers.

"Current military” includes Dept. of Defense ($653 billion), the military portion from other departments ($150 billion), and an additional $162 billion to supplement the Budget’s misleading and vast underestimate of only $38 billion for the “war on terror.” “Past military” represents veterans’ benefits plus 80% of the interest on the debt.

[hyteckit]

Originally Posted by Eug 

Dude, that WarResister's own site description states they're fudging the numbers.

"Current military” includes Dept. of Defense ($653 billion), the military portion from other departments ($150 billion), and an additional $162 billion to supplement the Budget’s misleading and vast underestimate of only $38 billion for the “war on terror.” “Past military” represents veterans’ benefits plus 80% of the interest on the debt.

Well dude, exactly. They give you the breakdown of how they came up with the numbers, which you can verify for yourself. They aren't trying to hide how they came up with the figures.

The video you posted is no different from the website I posted. Both are giving you their opinion the budget. Except one if focus on the $100 million budget cut compare to the whole budget and one is focus on what percentage goes to war/defense related activities compare to the whole budget.

[hyteckit]

How about another scale.

$653 billion dollars just for the dept of defense. Yet Republicans b*tch and complain about the $462 million for the Centers for Disease Control and $900 million for the pandemic flu preparations that was part of the stimulus bill. That's about .2%, under 1%, of the Dept. of Defense budget.

I say cut at least $100 billion from the Dept. of Defense.

[Eug]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

Well dude, exactly. They give you the breakdown of how they came up with the numbers, which you can verify for yourself. They aren't trying to hide how they came up with the figures.

The video you posted is no different from the website I posted. Both are giving you their opinion the budget

Nope. The site you posted makes up numbers.

The site I posted just ran with the existing numbers. He didn't make up the $100 million cut. That's what the gov't itself is talking about.