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The Pentagon spent
since you loaded this page.
The PrioritiesNH project at NHCA is an effort to expose
and disseminate information regarding the out of control
federal discretionary defense spending budget. The
primary reasons that PrioritiesNH has focused so heavily
on this one subject is because a panel of career military
experts declared that $60 billion from the Pentagon
budget is wasteful spending and because the Pentagon
budget is so unaccountable that not only can the
Department of Defense not pass an audit, but its books are
in such bad shape that an audit cannot even be performed!
This money could be spent on more important things, like
programs that benefit all Americans, such as:
All of this could be accomplished if the $60 billion of
Pentagon waste was reinvested into programs that
tangibly help Americans instead of being thrown into
the Pentagon's trash can of obsolete Cold War Era
weaponry.
Above t is a pie chart depiction of how the federal
discretionary budget is broken up. You may notice
that half of it goes to the Pentagon, with the section separated by the dotted line being the
$60 billion wasted annually.
Click here to see Ben Cohen explain the federal budget
using Oreo cookies!
Click here to see Ben Cohen explain how unnecessarily
large the US nuclear arsenal is.
since you loaded this page.
The PrioritiesNH project at NHCA is an effort to expose
and disseminate information regarding the out of control
federal discretionary defense spending budget. The
primary reasons that PrioritiesNH has focused so heavily
on this one subject is because a panel of career military
experts declared that $60 billion from the Pentagon
budget is wasteful spending and because the Pentagon
budget is so unaccountable that not only can the
Department of Defense not pass an audit, but its books are
in such bad shape that an audit cannot even be performed!
This money could be spent on more important things, like
programs that benefit all Americans, such as:
- Providing health insurance to 9 million children in America who lack it (19,000 in
New Hampshire) - Rebuilding or modernizing our public schools over the next 12 years
- Retraining a quarter-million workers
- Cutting our reliance on foreign oil in half over the next 10 years
- Improving medical care for veterans
- Investing wisely in Homeland Security by inspecting cargo containers entering our
ports - Preventing 6 million children from dying of hunger-related diseases in impoverished
countries annually - Beginning to reduce the deficit
All of this could be accomplished if the $60 billion of
Pentagon waste was reinvested into programs that
tangibly help Americans instead of being thrown into
the Pentagon's trash can of obsolete Cold War Era
weaponry.
Above t is a pie chart depiction of how the federal
discretionary budget is broken up. You may notice
that half of it goes to the Pentagon, with the section separated by the dotted line being the
$60 billion wasted annually.
Click here to see Ben Cohen explain the federal budget
using Oreo cookies!
Click here to see Ben Cohen explain how unnecessarily
large the US nuclear arsenal is.
