Overkill in the Defense Budget

Alright everyone, I'd like to show you all a video I came across. Yes, it's a cartoon. Yes, it stars one of the guys from Ben&Jerry's ice cream. Yes, he uses Oreos in it to represent spending. I won't deny that it's quite simplified.

But simplification is what we need for the issue of the budget. It's so gigantic that he has to use one cookie to represent TEN BILLION DOLLARS. The Pentagon receives 40 cookies, or 400 BILLION DOLLARS per year. Just watch the video to see how much other things get.

And for all you people who believe that we shouldn't completely shut the Pentagon off of all federal funds, which I assume is most of us, you'll like his solution. He doesn't say to take all of the Pentagon's money, or half, or even a quarter. He proposes that we simply take 5 "cookies" (50 billion dollars, or 1/8 of the Pentagon's budget), to help schools, feed every hungry child ON THE PLANET, and even more. I don't see why the country has to spend so much on "defense" when we have more problems than that.

Check out the video and comment on what you think about it.

And just to tell everyone, I'm not basing all of my beliefs on this one video that I've stumbled upon. It's short, it's cute, and it's informative. But it definitely doesn't replace reading up on the subject, which I have done. Here's a great book I'm currently reading about American militarism and how ridiculously high Defense spending is:

http://www.amazon.com/Sorrows-Empire-Militarism-Republic-American/dp/0805070044