Wednesday, June 8, 2011

We have too many Guns

I am always struck by how much money we in the United States spend on our military.
One way to think about our Federal government is as an insurance program with an army (1/4 health, 1/4 social security, 1/4 military, 1/4 everything else), and that army is really really big.
How big?
This big:

Military spending
that's right. We spend more on guns than the next 17 countries combined.I think this chart is quite striking.

Imagine what else we could do with that money if we even cut 20 or 30% off of our bill.

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