Originally Posted by
DVPGSR
These are the 2006 Budgets for the following... (in millions of dollars)
DOD - $426,286
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Social Security (OASI) - $447,900
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Department of Health & Human Services - $660,406
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So the DOD is actually LESS than the DHHS, NOT that the DHHS is a fraction of the DOD.
NONE of these budgets are even close to the Trillion dollar mark, two are even below $500 Billion, one of which is the DOD. But add HHS & just OASI and you are at the trillion dollar mark.
I am not trying to twist anything, merely putting the facts on the table and basing my decision on them. And after displaying the facts here I still stand by my original post.
This is because the Iraq war is not on the budget. It is off-budget spending.
Edit: Here's discretionary spending, from the CBO. As you can see, the Defense appropriations are as large as all the other catagories combined.
http://www.cbo.gov/budget/approps/approps.pdf