Last Decade, 65 Percent of Federal Expenditures Went to Pay for Entitlements

[C.Puffs]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...ts_645873.html

"About 65 percent of federal expenditures over the last ten years have gone towards entitlements," Paul Miller writes. "By comparison, about 15 percent has gone towards national defense, excluding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq has cost three percent, and only about one percent has gone towards the war in Afghanistan (including the cost of ongoing military operations and all reconstruction and stabilization assistance combined), according to my analysis of figures from OMB."

[RangerChallenge]

You should post this in the other thread.

[Nyusu]

In other words 15% + 3% + 1% = 19% went to national defense/wars. Not small number.

[Waletski]

19% thats a really small figure actually. The yearly death and taxes infographs usually show 60-65% going to military/ national defence.

[IconOfEvi]

Only set to increase

I wonder when we're gonna hit that 1:1 ratio...