Proposed $541 billion dollar Pentagon 2009 budget

keep_it_real

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Thu Jun-26-08 12:42 PM
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Proposed $541 billion dollar Pentagon 2009 budget

The proposed $541 billion Pentagon 2009 budget doesn't even include money for actual wars. George W. Bush's wars are all paid for by "supplemental" bills like the $162 billion one Congress will soon pass -- so the Department of Defense's $34 billion black budget skips "war-related funding." This means that even the overall figure for that budget remains darker than we might imagine (as in "black hole"). The Pentagon not only produces stealth planes, it is, in budgetary terms, a stealth operation.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/89432/?ses=1648789ece66da7b6efc071448917143

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Oregone

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Thu Jun-26-08 12:45 PM
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1. hmm...

Edited on Thu Jun-26-08 12:45 PM by Oregone

The American Eichman

Eichman, Eichman,
What do you see?
I see bombs,
Paid for by you and me.
I see dead babies,
So that we can be free.
I may oppose it and scream,
but will not do so uncomfortably.

That's a lot of money. I imagine it comes from somewhere.

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sharesunited

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Thu Jun-26-08 12:53 PM
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3. What screwed up priorities this country has. That is a globally imperial tab.

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AnotherVietnamVet

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Thu Jun-26-08 12:45 PM
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2. I seem to recall that the 2009 military budget was $735,700,000,000.

It was in the Veterans forum. Add $162,000,000,000 to that and we're starting to talk real $$$$$.

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