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In reply to the discussion: The voting public needs to see THIS image and see it OFTEN. [View all]FairWinds
(1,717 posts)sorry if my tone was snippy. That was not my intent.
But I do think that $ spent on security should be properly
accounted for; and that is not the case at this time.
Per Wiki, here is an outline of "insecurity" spending that almost always
conveniently gets left out . .
"This does not include many military-related items that are outside of the Defense Department budget, such as nuclear weapons research, maintenance, cleanup, and production, which are in the Atomic Energy Defense Activities section,[16] Veterans Affairs, the Treasury Department's payments in pensions to military retirees and widows and their families, interest on debt incurred in past wars, or State Department financing of foreign arms sales and militarily-related development assistance. Neither does it include defense spending that is not military in nature, such as the Department of Homeland Security, counter-terrorism spending by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and intelligence-gathering spending by NSA."
Not to mention state and local "security" spending