[Bokababe]

Phillip Geraldi said something similar in an article I read this morning:

...Some of the numbers behind what has happened should appall every true conservative. The United States now spends nearly one trillion dollars every year on the military, homeland security, and intelligence. Much of the money is borrowed from China. If one assumes that there are something like 5,000 active terrorists in the world, and there are likely less than that, it works out to something like $200 million per terrorist per year every year. Fear of terrorism drives growth in government and has led to involvement in multiple little wars and some bigger ones as well as subsequent exercises in nation building, all of which have been unconstitutional, and none of which have turned out well....

[rmlew]

I call BS on the figures and the assumption that it is all spent of the WOT as opposed to our large military etc.
I'm all for ending our dependence on Chinese money. But that would involve tariffs, the type of things libertarians oppose.

[MNJohnnie]

Sorry but your “1 Trillion” dollar figure is an out of context factoid. It includes all the various pork barrel projects tacked onto Defense Appropriations because that is the easiest way for Leftist congress critters to hid their spending and get unpopular pork projects passed.

Here are the budget facts in context

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/.