Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "Bet You Didn't Know We're Still At War In..." video.
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Alan G Not really. The charts you see that shows over 50% of the US budget being spent on military is dishonestly only the portion that's discretionary spending. The reason the military budget is so huge in that chart is because all military spending is discretionary.
If you look at both discretionary and mandatory spending, 2.2 trillion is on medicare/medicaid and other healthcare, social security, welfare, unemployment, debt interest, government pension, etc.
About $660 billion a year is on the military of the remaining $1.3 trillion in spending. This includes ongoing wars, intel, contracts, R&D, etc.
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