GOPussies! They are Afraid of Captured Terrorists
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I also talk about Carrie Prejean, Sarah Palin and Fort Hood.
I also break down spending over ten years. There has been much talk of how much we'll spend on health care, but the number is always raised an order of magnitude, multiplied by ten when we look at expenditures over the next ten years. Looking at numbers over the next ten years can be misleading. For instance, we all probably spend $100 per month on electricity. In one year, that's $1200, and in 10 years, that's $12,000. You wouldn't just say you're spending $12,000 on electricity, would you?
I'm more interested in next year. 849 billion dollars in ten years divides into 84 billion in one year. Still 849 billion is more than the stimulus package, a number that Republicans, feigning utter stupidity, say they can not fathom. So much money that if you spent a million dollars per day since Jesus was born, well, you get the picture. Let's look at the rest of our federal budget if we looked at it over ten years.
These numbers are all from George Bush's 2009 Budget. Obama's first budget is not until the year 2010.
Our total outlays would be around $30 trillion in ten years.
Of that, in Mandatory spending, we would spend $18.9 trillion.
Discretionary spending: $12.1 trillion.
- $1.452 trillion for the Global War on Terror.
- $5.154 trillion for the United States Department of Defense.
- $6.606 trillion when you combine the two.
- $6.44 trillion in outlays for Social Security.
- $4.08 trillion for Medicare.
- $2.24 trillion for Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
- $3.60 trillion for Unemployment, Welfare, and Other mandatory spending. For those hawking over welfare, that's 10% of outlays over ten years and it's combined with other programs.
- $2.60 trillion for Interest on National Debt.
All of these numbers exceed the amount we say we'll spend on health care. and again, some of the aforementioned dollars will be co-opted into health care.
Taking a look at the rest of our budget, in order of the amount spent, in ten years, we'll spend:
- $704 billion for the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
- $454 billion for the United States Department of Education.
- $448 billion for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
- $385 billion for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- $383 billion for State and Other International Programs.
- $376 billion for the United States Department of Homeland Security.
- $390 billion for Other Off-budget Discretionary Spending.
- $250 billion for the United States Department of Energy.
- $208 billion for the United States Department of Agriculture.
- $203 billion for the United States Department of Justice.
- $176 billion for NASA.
- $125 billion for the United States Department of the Treasury.
- $115 billion for the United States Department of Transportation.
- $106 billion for the United States Department of the Interior.
- $105 billion for the United States Department of Labor.
- Mind you, all these numbers are over ten years.
- $84 billion for the Social Security Administration.
- $72 billion for Other agencies.
- $71 billion for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
- $69 billion for the National Science Foundation.
- $63 billion for the Judicial branch (United States federal courts).
- $47 billion for the Legislative branch (United States Congress).
- $47 billion for the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
- $7 billion for the Small Business Administration.
- $4 billion for the Executive Office of the President.
So there you have it. In the next ten years, compared to universal health care, we'll spend
nearly twice as much on the Global War on Terror, more than 6 times as much on the United States Department of Defense, Six times as much on social security, five times as much on Medicare, twice as much for Medicaid and Children's health insurance, though that number might be co-opted. Three times as much on unemployment and nearly three times as much on interest on the national debt. This is all based on 2009 numbers.
Finally, there is a Song at the end. Here are the Lyrics:
PRE-EXISTING CONDITION
It's a pre-existing condition
I was born in war
Gonna die in pain
It's the bombing countries I mention
Fearing the third world
policy's insane
Like Keystone Cops on a Mission
We're afraid of gangs
As if they could
Bomb us into submission
They already have
On 911
(Chorus)
Bomb and bomb and bomb complete
Invasion for democracy
War and war and war means peace
Conflict is the the god we seek
Gotta make weapons nah nah nah
People starving, wah wah wah
Used to be bad guys started wars
Good guys just don't end them now
It's a pre-existing condition
Democrat and fool
Both of them are tools
Two overthrows of two nations
2001
2003
Their blood is not worth a mention
Anyone who dies
Must have been spy
It's a pre existing condition
Stupidity
war on the streets
Mindless war and aggression
We can't kill enough
There's always more
A Trillion bucks of seduction
War can make more ends
Than insurance
We've got Weapons of Mass destruction
Stacked up to the sky
no one here knows why
(Chorus)
Bomb and bomb and bomb complete
Invasion for democracy
War and war and war means peace
Conflict is the the god we seek
Gotta make weapons nah nah nah
People starving, wah wah wah
Used to be bad guys started wars
Good guys just don't end them now
(Bridge)
Born in war
Gonna die in pain
Born in war
Gonna die in pain
Who can make the prediction?
Who we'll be at war
With in ten years?
And every war that they mention
It will be the sum
Of all our fears
It's an existential concoction
We can't be destroyed
by men with toys
So why do we spend the trillions?
Why waste all the blood?
For all the oil?
We spend an arm and a leg on
Every tank we pump
what is the sum?
When you tag on the ammunition
And the arms and legs
Soldiers have left?
What bad karma to leave all our children?
What kind of legacy
From you and me?
All the blood that we have our hands on
It will be on theirs
Why don't we care?
It's a pre-existing condition
Stupidity
We can't see
It's a pre-existing condition
We don't care
We don't care
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