Build your own defense budget

[Tgace]

Some may enjoy this....

http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/defensebudget/

 

[AnimEdge]

Im still waiting on the 'Star Wars' defence system

 

[hardheadjarhead]

That was fun. Just for kicks I went "paleo-conservative" and put in what I thought Pat Buchanen and Richard Nixon would put in. I got the budget down to $245 billion and it STILL was higher than all of our allies put together. I put an emphasis on aggressive technology, but cut the fleet back considerably to two ocean coverage. I got rid of land nukes and put the nukes on the Trident subs (we can also launch them from any carrier and guided missle cruiser...something not mentioned on that page).

I wonder what we could do with that extra fifty billion a year? It'd be neat if there was an overall national budget page like this.


Regards,


Steve

 

[bignick]

this is too much math for me...i get this semester off from a math class...my first in two years...so i'm letting that area of my brain go to sleep for a little bit

 

[michaeledward]

Tgace ... thank you for this link... I am currently on a wireless modem, I am looking forward to playing with it when I get back to my broadband connection.

 

[Feisty Mouse]

Neat-o! While being (I think) pretty conservative, I cut $2.5 billion from the budget!

Woo! More money for Head Start!