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$1.2 Trillion Spent on the Military While the Rest of Us Fight Over Crumbs

Laura Flanders, AlterNet. March 6, 2011.

So after all that cash is gone, what are we left with? Not a whole heck of a lot for the rest of us.

$1.2 Trillion: The Real U.S. National Security Budget No One Wants You to Know About

Chris Hellman, TomDispatch.com. March 1, 2011.

If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year.

Obama's Team Signals It's Taking the Taxpayer Ripoff Route to Saving Our Financial System

Paul Krugman, The New York Times. January 20, 2009.

Obama's team is talking a whole new economic voodoo: the belief that by performing elaborate financial rituals we can keep dead banks walking.