american military intervention
Are we witnessing a world’s climate change end American statecraft abroad?
I think mother earth will tame the beast that is American military intervention around the world, considering we’re going to have to start seriously investing in our levees and bridges and other pieces of infrastructure.
Father God will take care of mother earth, He made it.
The states are responsible for most of their own infrastructure, the federal government is responsible for interstate highways and ports.
US Budget 2007
20.2% $586.1 billion (+7.0%) – Social Security
19.0% $548.8 billion (+9.0%) – Defense[2]
13.6% $394.5 billion (+12.4%) – Medicare
12.7% $294.0 billion (+2.0%) – Welfare
09.5% $276.4 billion (+2.9%) – Medicaid and other health related
08.4% $243.7 billion (+13.4%) – Interest on debt
03.1% $89.9 billion (+1.3%) – Education and training
02.6% $76.9 billion (+8.1%) – Transportation
02.5% $72.6 billion (+5.8%) – Veterans’ benefits
01.5% $43.5 billion (+9.2%) – Administration of justice
01.1% $33.1 billion (+5.7%) – Natural resources and environment
01.1% $32.5 billion (+15.4%) – Foreign affairs
0.9% $27.0 billion (+3.7%) – Agriculture
0.9% $26.8 billion (+28.7%) – Community and regional development
0.8% $25.0 billion (+4.0%) – Science and technology
0.8% $23.5 billion (+0.8%) – Energy
0.6% $20.1 billion (+11.4%) – General government
Amount of Constitutional spending:
$794.4 billion
Amount of Un-Constitutional spending:
$2,020 billion
total $2814.4 billion
Receipts for fiscal year 2007 were $2,407 billion.
Think what awesome roads and bridges we would have or how much could be reinvested by citizens and businesses if we didn’t have to pay such burdensome taxes. How much more left in your wallet to pay bills and to donate to charities.
Black Hawk Down – 56-min Documentary
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Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (American Empire Project) $6.00 If the 20th century was the American century, the 21st century may be a time of reckoning for the United States. Chalmers Johnson, an authority on Japan and its economy, offers a troubling prognosis of what’s to come. Blowback–the title refers to a CIA neologism describing the unintended consequences of American activity–is a call for the United States to rethink its position in the world. “The … |
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The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power $4.00 Whether fought for commercial or strategic concessions or even moral reasons, whether little-known or well-publicized, America’s “small wars”–against, say, the Barbary pirates and the rebellious Boxers–played a large part in the development of what historian Max Boot does not hesitate to call an American empire. All arguments to the contrary, Boot insists, America has never been an isolationist … |
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Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq $16.99 A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments–not always to its own benefit “Regime change” did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. Starting with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 and c… |
