Numbers.

$1,162,000,000,000.
The total amount spent on all the armies for all the countries in all the world last year.
$594,000,000,000.
The amount spent by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2006, not including Iraq funding; 51% of the world total.
$7,601.
The average American household’s share of the 2006 Defense Budget.
$40 (a Day)
Name of a Food Network show hosted by Rachel Ray in which she shows how cheaply one can eat while on vacation.
$3 (a Day)
The amount an average food stamp recipient spends on food.

Can someone please explain to me why the United States spends more on defense than the rest of the world combined but cannot win a war in a country that has no army?

Can someone please explain to me why defense spending continues to grow but one in five children in America goes to bed hungry?

KBR. Bechtel. Etc.

Who cares about starving kids? You know it's far more important that some Halliburton executive should be able to get gold plating for the faucets on his third yacht or whatever.

directly into the pockets of "The Masters of War".

Nor does his party.

plus another what? $1600 for Iraq war (@ $5/day) plus the rise in gas prices and who nows how much in extra gas prices? Those are just immediate costs.

There are an estimated 78 million households in the U.S.

We pay more for fuel, because of the Republican/Iraq War.

We pay more for prescription meds because Bush won't allow us to buy meds in an open market, unlike everything else. Funny how businesses in this country must try to be competitive with other countries, but we can't allow other countries to compete for our meds.

Just another hypocritical moment brought to us by the GOP.