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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
sorry to add on, looking at the U.S. government the total mandatory spending was 2.17 trillion, total discretionary spending was $1.4 trillion for a total of $3.55 trillion.
I think my numbers of revenue might be wrong, but I'm going off of the IRS breakdown.
But some things that stand out.
I love the military and support it, but there was a 13% increase last year, I think that if they're out of the war next year they should be able to reduce that. funnily enough defense was considered discretionary settings.
But all categories of mandatory spending which was social security, medicare , medicade, interest on the debt and the shadowy other which is shows $571 billion and saw an average increase of 12% last year all have to be cut.
The U.S. needs their own austerity program this year and now. They need to pay more then the interest on the national debt.
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It's really tough to get a full understanding of just what the defense budget
is.
So much of it is re-routed and funneled and given a new name.
Yes, giving billions of dollars to Turkey in the form of cash and military equipment is technically a state department issue, but that's defense spending.
There is so much of this; I remember the last time I tried to compile the numbers I almost lost my mind.