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**Janny2006** · 02-10-2010, 02:56 AM

Instead of looking at absolute numbers look at the spending as a percentage of GDP. This chart will give you a good idea of how military spending has trended since before WWII.

Or, you could look at it as a percentage of global military spending. We spend as much the rest of the world combined on our military activities. We spend eight times as much as our nearest competitor, China. Are we really that insecure?

This isn't about cutting waste, this is about a radical change to our foreign policy. Even worse than the damage being done to our economic future, is the fall we're setting ourselves up for when the rest of the world gets sick of being pushed around.

02-10-2010, 02:56 AM	#9
Janny2006 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 471 Senior Member	Instead of looking at absolute numbers look at the spending as a percentage of GDP. This chart will give you a good idea of how military spending has trended since before WWII. Or, you could look at it as a percentage of global military spending. We spend as much the rest of the world combined on our military activities. We spend eight times as much as our nearest competitor, China. Are we really that insecure? This isn't about cutting waste, this is about a radical change to our foreign policy. Even worse than the damage being done to our economic future, is the fall we're setting ourselves up for when the rest of the world gets sick of being pushed around.
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