And some people wonder why there is a deficit..... too much of our Tax Dollars are wasted on frivolous projects like these......

Teaching Pigeons to Gamble, Torturing Ferrets, Fattening Eels: The Worst Government Waste of 2021

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky wrapped up the year by releasing his annual “Festivus Report,” spotlighting the most egregious examples of pointless government spending.

https://www.westernjournal.com/teaching-...4KXkTvs-qk

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He forgot food stamps and Fauchi's salary.

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"Remember Red, Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."  - Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption

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"If you always do what you've always done, You'll always get what you always got"

National defense spending in 1913: ~$427,000,000
National defense spending in 2021: ~$753,500,000,000

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National defense spending in 1913: ~$427,000,000
National defense spending in 2021: ~$753,500,000,000

Someone has to fight the stinky, ugly, communist

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"If you always do what you've always done, You'll always get what you always got"

National defense spending in 1913: ~$427,000,000
National defense spending in 2021: ~$753,500,000,000

Someone has to fight the stinky, ugly, communist

It better be another country stepping up to the plate because they are running the show here.

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Original Season Ticket Holder - Retired  1995 - 2020


At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.
 

National defense spending in 1913: ~$427,000,000
National defense spending in 2021: ~$753,500,000,000

Just curious... was that adjusted for inflation?

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National defense spending in 1913: ~$427,000,000
National defense spending in 2021: ~$753,500,000,000

Just curious... was that adjusted for inflation?

10 billion

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National defense spending in 1913: ~$427,000,000
National defense spending in 2021: ~$753,500,000,000

Just curious... was that adjusted for inflation?

I think it's actual estimated spending, but there hasn't been close to 2000% inflation since then. The USA is just wasting tons of money on military contractor pork barrel to keep certain welfare states afloat.

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Speaking of government waste, Harry Reid...

Nope. Nope. I'm better than that.

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Just curious... was that adjusted for inflation?

I think it's actual estimated spending, but there hasn't been close to 2000% inflation since then. The USA is just wasting tons of money on military contractor pork barrel to keep certain welfare states afloat.

Yes, there has been over 2,000% inflation since then.  

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

2,707%, to be precise.

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Speaking of government waste, Harry Reid...

Nope. Nope. I'm better than that.

It's the internet.  No one knows who you are.  If it's funny, post it.  Funny trumps everything.

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Speaking of government waste, Harry Reid...

Nope. Nope. I'm better than that.

Ya... never mind. LOL

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"If you always do what you've always done, You'll always get what you always got"

I think it's actual estimated spending, but there hasn't been close to 2000% inflation since then. The USA is just wasting tons of money on military contractor pork barrel to keep certain welfare states afloat.

Yes, there has been over 2,000% inflation since then.  

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

2,707%, to be precise.

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Speaking of government waste, Harry Reid...

Nope. Nope. I'm better than that.

It's the internet.  No one knows who you are.  If it's funny, post it.  Funny trumps everything.

Okay. Interesting to see that most of the inflation appears to have happened during the WW1 timeframe.

Also 2700% inflation still means defense spending was about 1.3% of what it currently is.

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Yes, there has been over 2,000% inflation since then.  

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

2,707%, to be precise.

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It's the internet.  No one knows who you are.  If it's funny, post it.  Funny trumps everything.

Okay. Interesting to see that most of the inflation appears to have happened during the WW1 timeframe.

Also 2700% inflation still means defense spending was about 1.3% of what it currently is.

You are correct.  Accounting for inflation, the 1913 military spend is equivalent to $10.2 billion in 2014 dollars and nearly $12 billion today.  So military spending has increased 6200%

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You're not going to see me pretending there isn't massive waste in the military. I was just curious how much it was by today's standards. I do think we should be spending a lot on our military.... even more than what we did, but there is obviously bloat and people skimming from the taxpayer in our current system. It also doesn't change the point of the original post. We are taxed too much because there are too many people with their hands in the cookie jar.

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Spend wisely on the Military, but keep up with China and Russia. At this point, we are not doing either.

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"Remember Red, Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."  - Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption

You're not going to see me pretending there isn't massive waste in the military. I was just curious how much it was by today's standards. I do think we should be spending a lot on our military.... even more than what we did, but there is obviously bloat and people skimming from the taxpayer in our current system. It also doesn't change the point of the original post. We are taxed too much because there are too many people with their hands in the cookie jar.

Spend wisely on the Military, but keep up with China and Russia.  At this point, we are not doing either.

Are you guys for real?

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Okay. Interesting to see that most of the inflation appears to have happened during the WW1 timeframe.

Also 2700% inflation still means defense spending was about 1.3% of what it currently is.

You are correct.  Accounting for inflation, the 1913 military spend is equivalent to $10.2 billion in 2014 dollars and nearly $12 billion today.  So military spending has increased 6200%

Which is really a pointless stat, since we had hardly any military at all in 1914.

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Okay. Interesting to see that most of the inflation appears to have happened during the WW1 timeframe.

Also 2700% inflation still means defense spending was about 1.3% of what it currently is.

You are correct.  Accounting for inflation, the 1913 military spend is equivalent to $10.2 billion in 2014 dollars and nearly $12 billion today.  So military spending has increased 6200%

Which is really a pointless stat, since we had hardly any military at all in 1914.

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You are correct.  Accounting for inflation, the 1913 military spend is equivalent to $10.2 billion in 2014 dollars and nearly $12 billion today.  So military spending has increased 6200%

Which is really a pointless stat, since we had hardly any military at all in 1914.

And yet the country survived.

Canada still spends less than 3% of what the United States spends on military. No discussion of governmental waste should occur without first talking about military spending, and really that's the only thing that's currently worth talking about on that subject if you're not getting to be partisan about it.

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