In Other News

The House of Representatives recently approved a $409 billion military budget for the next fiscal year. This figure doesn’t include supplemental funding for “Operation: Iraqi Freedom”, which has run about $300 billion over the last 3 years.

Including the expense of the Iraq war, over the last three fiscal years the Department of Defense has spent $1.45 trillion, or $480 billion/year. Given that the average civilian labor force over the same time period was 139 million people, the government takes $3470/year out of the average pay check for the purpose of killing people. If your family makes the median income, $1.66 per hour of work goes towards feeding the war machine.

What? You didn't want to spend that much on killing people? That's called democracy.