Paying for the US War Machine is a terrible waste of money

http://www.alternet.org/world/biggest-waste-your-money-taxes-are-paying-americas-war-machine?akid=11713.294211.dfcGFB&rd=1&src=newsletter981271&t=15

When we're told by our elected officials that we can't afford full funding for education, SNAP (food stamps), Head Start, or unemployment compensation, how is it that we can afford the endless “War on Terror” plus a pivot to East Asia? Expecting a peace divided as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down is wishful thinking: President Obama still proposes to spend a whopping 55% of federal discretionary funds for Fiscal Year 2015 on the military.