Stephen Zunes captures the essence of our countrys sick dysfunctional priorities: This weeks bipartisan budget agreement, in order to pay for increased military spending, ended unemployment benefits for 1.3 million people and eliminated funding for high-speed rail, among other measures. These graphs, with short explanatory paragraphs, provide some interesting details about the distorted budget priorities of both Republicans and Democrats, including how U.S. military spending is close to equaling the total military spending of all other countries in the world combined.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 01:40:32 +0000
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