Reply #2: A very useful website [View All]

[exboyfil]

http://www.kowaldesign.com/cgi/Budget.pl?estimates=111111

Department of Veterans Affairs has a budget of $124B.
Department of Defense has a budget of $767B.
Department of Energy Nuclear Security $13B.
Department of Energy Envir & Other Defense $8B.
Total Bill - $912B/6.2% of GDP (2010 CIA Factbook $14.66 T U.S. GDP)

Number of adults in U.S. about 235M. Defense spend per adult is $3,880. Ask your conservative friends how much they and their wife paid in Federal taxes last year. Unless it was more than $7761 then they did not even cover the defense spending done on their behalf.

I was stunned by the GDP ratio. I have always seen 4.7%. Including the other programs (which are basically payments for our past wars) ups it to 6.2% of GDP.