RSS
 

Military Spending: 1950 – 2010

11 Aug

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures

Military Spending: 2012
1 United States 711.0B
2 China 143.0B
3 Russia 71.9B
4 United Kingdom 62.7B
5 France 62.5B

In Perspective:
If the MSL ("Curiosity") cost $2.5B over 8 years, costing Americans $7 per person, then this year's military alone cost Americans $1,988 per person.

Google+: Reshared 2 times
Google+: View post on Google+

 

Tags:

Leave a Reply

 

 
  1. James Clark

    August 12, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    Priorities. We lack them.