Saturday, February 2, 2013

The Military Budget is well beyond the stated Budget. (That budget is as big as the next 13 countries military budgets.)

The stated US military budget of 525 Billion is larger than the next 13 largest countries military budgets combined.  That is only part of the Military budget.

Here are a sampling of other - non budget, military costs.
So how misleading is the $525 billion figure?
For starters, the $525.4 billion does not include $88.5 billion for unbudgeted costs of wars overseas, called Overseas Contingency Operations. Add other Pentagon spending details and the projected outlays (see fiscal 2013 budget at p. 84) come to $672.9 billion, which is 28 percent more than the basic Defense budget.
But wait!—There’s more.
Each year the Director of National Intelligence releases a total budget figure for national intelligence. For fiscal 2013 it was $52.6 billion, down from $53.9 billionin fiscal 2012. National security includes the NSA, CIA, and other intelligence services. Military intelligence spending, included in the base Defense budget, was $19.2 billion. (A good place to track these budget issues is the Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program.)
Next there’s $19.2 billion for the nuclear bomb-making arm of the Energy Department. Homeland Security includes $13.2 billion for customs and border patrol and $10.5 billion for the Coast Guard.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/01/1184033/-The-uncalculated-unreported-real-defense-budget

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