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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2111430" data-attributes="member: 56035">Military expenditures bleed the federal budget—officially—of $598.49 billion a year, or 53.71 percent of all spending. This does not, however, include veterans’ benefits at $65.32 billion a year or hidden costs in other budgets that see the military and the war profiteers take as much as $1.6 trillion a year out of the pockets of taxpayers. - chris hedgesnot to mention the pentagon budget has never been audited who i heard ralph nader talking about.  i also saw the 60% number in the new michael moore moviebut thats not really the point:  what i want to know from the conservatives is how do you justify spending that kind of money on terrorists which is extremely unlikely to happen to you, but not climate change which you believe to also be extremely unlikely to happen.</blockquote>