Sunday Reading

The Personal Finance Industry Is A Scam
What's Wrong With Modern Buildings? Everything, Starting With How They're Made
The Old Japan Disaster Horror Story
Andrew Yang Is Wrong
The Military-Industrial Virus
Does Trump Deserve Credit For The Economy? The Numbers Say No
The Misunderstood Brilliance Of The VA
How The Federal Government Rigs The Game Against Small Businesses
Robin Vos Insults The Intelligence Of Wisconsinites
Real Estate Owners Give Republicans Millions
When Socialists Swept Milwaukee
Colorado Has Generated Over $1 Billion In Marijuana Revenue
Study Finds Trump Tax Cuts Failed To Do Anything But Give Rich People Money

Tea Party Inspiration & Republican Pioneer Of Batshit: Ronald Reagan

U.S. Defense Budget

Military Balance 2012

Weekend Reading

American Troops Under the Formal Control of Another Nation

Distressed Real Estate: Yet To Hit Bottom

Falling Dollar Phobia

Inside the GOP's Fact-Free Nation

Job Creation by the Wealthy is Mostly a Myth

9 Things the Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes

Only Little People Pay Taxes

Small Biz No Job Machine

Super Rich See Federal Taxes Drop Dramatically

10 Epic Failures of the Bush Tax Cuts

The True Price of Auto Labor Costs

Three Most Important Health Care Graphs

What Determines the Price of Gas?

Wisconsin's Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

The Untouchable Complex

Robert Scheer points out the hypocrisy of the budget cutters and deficit hawks. Over half of all federal discretionary spending is military spending. Cutting this is always off the table for Republicans (and most Democrats, too).

Where's The Money?

In all of the heated rhetoric surrounding deficits, debt, budgets, and where we are going to get the revenues to pay for the services we all desire, why do we ignore the glaringly inefficient, unneeded, unnecessary, and gratuitously bloated military budget?

The second largest military (China) spend 6.7 times less than the United States. We spend $660+ billion, while China spends almost $99 billion. Canada and Germany only spend 1.3% of their GDP on military expense. The U.S. spends 4.3%. Only spending as much as these two other highly productive and advanced nations would equal a 70 percent reduction in our military spending. Our military budget would only be $198 billion. A savings of $462 billion.

But, for arguments sake, lets assume we could have an equally effective military spending just 4 times what China spends. We'd still be spending just under $400 billion. But we'd now have over $260 billion to spend on infrastructure, education, health care, Medicare, debt, etc.

A much better bang for the buck. (No pun intended.)

Weekend Reading

Entering the Repossession Lane
How American Awfulness Stacks Up
How the Federal Reserve Earned Its Profits
The Military-Industrial Complex is Ruining the Economy
Time to Reign in Out-Of-Control Corporate Influences on Our Democracy