DoD spending

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Fred Stiening

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source: Defense.gov

$585.3 billion is the FY 2016 budget request for the Department of Defense

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3 Responses to DoD spending

  1. CC1s121LrBGT says:
    October 1, 2015 at 5:53 am

    How much of it is pensions, retirement, and medical costs such as the VA?

    As an aside:
    A growing percentage of government expenditures is for money the government employees decided to spend on themselves.

    Ever wonder why the taxpayers set money aside in pension funds for them, that taxpayers don’t even have for themselves?

    Ever wonder why that tax money is separated into accounts and invested for those government employees when the government they run has to borrow each year to do the things it does here and now?

    • Art Stone says:
      October 1, 2015 at 6:43 am

      None. The deferred costs of war are in the VA, which is its own department. Their number was another $57 billion I think. There was another line item called Overseas Contingencies, which sounds like the CIA’s mercenary Army to go topple leaders of governments we don’t like.

  2. briand75 says:
    October 1, 2015 at 7:29 am

    Overseas contingencies – Vlad Putin, Bashar Assad, Ayatollah Khameni (or any other leader). Get to work you people!

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