Global Military Spending Hits High
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this is just sad and disgusting....we can't pay for universal health insurance, we can't fund education, we can't fund planned parenthood, but we sure as hell can pay for that big ass military we have...
Global Military Spending Hits High But Growth Slows
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/1 ... 47257.html
Worldwide military spending edged up in 2010 to a record $1.6 trillion, a leading think-tank said on Monday.
Global spending rose 1.3 percent in real terms, a slowdown from 5.9 percent the year before as the economic downturn caused by the 2008 financial crisis hit military spending, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said.
"In many cases, the falls or slower increases represent a delayed reaction to the global financial and economic crisis that broke in 2008," it said in a statement, adding that there were regional differences.
Spending in Europe shrank 2.8 percent to $382 billion as governments started to rein in soaring budget deficits.
The biggest cuts were in small economies in central and eastern Europe, and in crisis-struck southern European countries such as Greece.
"Further cuts are expected in most of Europe in 2011 and subsequent years, although these are likely to remain relatively modest in the major spending countries," SIPRI, which conducts independent research on international security, armaments and disarmament, said in a statement.
The United States, with costly military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, increased spending by 2.8 percent to $698 billion -- about six times as much as China, the second-biggest spender ahead of Britain, France and Russia. In 2009, U.S. spending grew 7.7 percent.
"The United States has increased its military spending by 81 percent since 2001," SIPRI said. "At 4.8 percent of gross domestic product, U.S. military spending in 2010 represents the largest economic burden outside the Middle East," said SIPRI Military Expenditure Project chief Sam Perlo-Freeman.
Global Military Spending Hits High But Growth Slows
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/1 ... 47257.html
Worldwide military spending edged up in 2010 to a record $1.6 trillion, a leading think-tank said on Monday.
Global spending rose 1.3 percent in real terms, a slowdown from 5.9 percent the year before as the economic downturn caused by the 2008 financial crisis hit military spending, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said.
"In many cases, the falls or slower increases represent a delayed reaction to the global financial and economic crisis that broke in 2008," it said in a statement, adding that there were regional differences.
Spending in Europe shrank 2.8 percent to $382 billion as governments started to rein in soaring budget deficits.
The biggest cuts were in small economies in central and eastern Europe, and in crisis-struck southern European countries such as Greece.
"Further cuts are expected in most of Europe in 2011 and subsequent years, although these are likely to remain relatively modest in the major spending countries," SIPRI, which conducts independent research on international security, armaments and disarmament, said in a statement.
The United States, with costly military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, increased spending by 2.8 percent to $698 billion -- about six times as much as China, the second-biggest spender ahead of Britain, France and Russia. In 2009, U.S. spending grew 7.7 percent.
"The United States has increased its military spending by 81 percent since 2001," SIPRI said. "At 4.8 percent of gross domestic product, U.S. military spending in 2010 represents the largest economic burden outside the Middle East," said SIPRI Military Expenditure Project chief Sam Perlo-Freeman.
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if they can not call in and vote for it then they can't be bothered to care about it...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Nope. I agree. But that's not the point of the thread, is it?
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.