Hey hey, we’re a warmongering empire on the way out

http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/eric_margolis/2010/02/05/12758511-qmi.html

Obama’s total military budget is nearly $1 trillion. This includes Pentagon spending of $880 billion. Add secret black programs (about $70 billion); military aid to foreign nations like Egypt, Israel and Pakistan; 225,000 military “contractors” (mercenaries and workers); and veterans’ costs. Add $75 billion (nearly four times Canada’s total defence budget) for 16 intelligence agencies with 200,000 employees.

The Afghanistan and Iraq wars ($1 trillion so far), will cost $200-250 billion more this year, including hidden and indirect expenses. Obama’s Afghan “surge” of 30,000 new troops will cost an additional $33 billion — more than Germany’s total defence budget.

Me: 1 trillion dollars?  Man, that is some Grade A health care for me and my family.  Not that I give Obama many points but he gets points off for putting so much money down the mouth of the death machine.