US spent $52.4 Billion...

[Bigmack]

on nuclear weapons last year. $47 Billion for upkeep alone.

WTF is wrong with this country? Haven't the people running this puzzle factory heard that times are tight and we've got to cut back?

Why are the Repubs... or anybody... quibbling over a few paltry millions for birth control.

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/01/nuclear_spending.html

[madinmaryland]

1. We also spend more than the rest of the world COMBINED on military budgets.

[hay rick]

7. And that's just starters.

Our "military budget" doesn't include items such as the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, CIA activities, and the Veteran's Administration. The military budget does not include any portion of the interest payments on debt.

Nuclear weapons are also subsidized by budgets of other agencies. Link to another article (cited in the original article):http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=22601&prog=zgp&proj=znpp

Excerpt: "Nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs account for at least 67 percent of DOE’s budget, 8.5 percent of the FBI’s budget, 7.1 percent of the Department of Defense budget, and 1.7 percent of the Department of Homeland Security’s budget."

[MichiganVote]

2. But birth control leads to wanton sex which makes us all perverts!

[Parche]

3. minuteman 3

i used to guard those in the air force
they sent out so many useless and wasteful trips to the missile sites
:hi:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. They say that UFO's like minutemen missiles.... n/t

[chollybocker]

4. Imagine how many diseases could have been cured with that $.

[sandnsea]

5. They're certifiable

They just do not give a shit about this country or anybody in it, nor anybody's money. All they want is POWER.