See also this youtube video: Wealth Inequality in America 
"Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination." ~Martha Gellhorn

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. ~Ernest Hemingway

"The war is utter damn nonsense--a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking [sic] malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting." ~John Dos Passos
 

also below, info from the National Priorities Project

Where Does Your Income Tax Money Really Go?!

"...Wars are debt-financed, even though taxes were raised to help pay for every war American prior to Afghanistan and Iraq. Add in interest costs attributable to past conflicts, as the pacifist War Resisters League does, and the fiscal 2013 cost of national security comes to more than $1.3 trillion -- ”two and a half times the basic Defense budget."
-- David Cay Johntston (Columbia Journalism Review 1/31/13)
President Obama has delayed the release of his proposed FY 2014 budget. Therefore Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes, our famous 'Pie Chart' flyer, will be late. We're preparing everything we can now, and once the government releases their numbers, we'll quickly analyze them and plug in the more honest numbers.
But you can pre-order copies of this important resource and we'll do our best to get them to you in time for Tax Day.
We also still have plenty of FY13 "Pie Charts" if you want to order those.

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from the National Priorities Project - projected:


Discretionary spending:
Discretionary spending, which accounts for 31 percent and $1.15 trillion of the proposed 2013 budget, does not include earned-benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare. Rather, it includes programs whose funding levels are set each year by lawmakers during the appropriations process. Such programs include the military, education, job training, and environmental protection.
Mandatory spending:
Mandatory spending, which accounts for 62 percent and $2.27 trillion of the proposed 2013 budget, includes programs like Social Security and Medicare, which are often called earned benefit or entitlement programs. Lawmakers do not choose the exact amount of money spent on these programs, because it depends on how many people qualify for benefits.