>>12
You do know that the DoD only gets 20% of total Federal spending
This ignores the other countless hundreds of billions of dollars that's spent on the military outside of the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies (which are classified of course), and a whole slew of other shit that even half of Congress doesn't know about.
and the two biggest welfare programs--Social Security and Medicare--are between them approaching 50% of US federal government spending right now, just those two programs all by themselves, and growing by 10-12% per year, right? Add in all the SSI-checks-for-crackheads, midnight-baxitball, Medicaid, "income security," "nutritional assistance," stuff that the government gives the rather Orwellian label of "Other Mandatory Spending" in the big pie charts, and we're already at 55%.
A lot of that is inflated because of the stimulus that was put out (not that I entirely agree with how it was managed). Once that expires, things should level out (barring anything else)
Wikipedia
There's your problem. Wikipedia is shit when it comes to economic matters.
>>13
Back to your libertarian circlejerk, please.