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# Brenda said:
Figures taken directly from the budget
53% – Defence Department
.04% -Education Department
6.1% -Health & Human Services
.09% -Social Security

In no way shape or form am I saying that the United States doesn’t need national missile defence. I’m just questioning the amount put toward the whole Defence Department in proportion to other departments. I think the people of the United States deserve more money invested in them with education and health benefits then trying to police the world.

Yes, at the moment I reside in the UK but I am still currently a tax paying United States citizen that has honourable served my country in the Armed Forces so I have a right to this opinion.

I’m not a lover of Obama and I’m not a “tree hugger” but I do believe the people of the United States deserve more.

Brenda, take a look at the budget yourself, young one! NEVER quote something so easily checked without actually seeing it for yourself. then your lefty friends wouldn’t leave you out on a limb, by yourself.
The actual amounts are….Numbers in parentheses are % change over previous year
o $695 billion (+4.9%) – Social Security (bigger alone than D.O.D.’s 663.7 Billion)
o $453 billion (+6.6%) – Medicare
o $290 billion (+12.0%) – Medicaid
o $164 billion (+18.0%) – Interest on National Debt
o $663.7 billion (+12.7%) – Department of Defense (including Overseas Contingency Operations) Smaller than the three that should be under health and human services (H.H.S. +medicaid+medicare=)
o $78.7 billion (-1.7%) – Department of Health and Human Services
o $47.5 billion (+18.5%) – Department of Housing and Urban Development (probably should be included in HHS too)
o $46.7 billion (+12.8%) – Department of Education
o $13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of Labor
o $10.5 billion (+34.6%) – Environmental Protection Agency
o $9.7 billion (+10.2%) – Social Security Administration
o $7.0 billion (+1.4%) – National Science Foundation (after all the talk about helping the U.S. compete in a technological world, why only 1.4% increase?)
o $0.7 billion (0.0%) – Small Business Administration (Why with all the talk
about helping small businesses, no increase?)

SO,
663.7 B……………………………………………Defense
46.7 B………………………………………………Education
453 B+290 B+78.7 B=821.7 B………………..Health and Human Services (Medicare+Medicaid+HHS)
695B+9.7B=704.7……………………………….Social Security
easier to read on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget#Total_spending
But also available (With a lot more searching and digesting) at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Overview/