Wednesday, May 25, 2022

American Impotence

"The evenly-divided Senate approved the legislation – formally known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – on Wednesday in an 88-11 vote, garnering strong support from both Democrats and Republicans. The House of Representatives passed it by 363-70 last week."

Do Americans really think politicians who eagerly approved a $777 billion military industrial complex bill by an 8-1 margin in the Senate and a 5-1 margin in the House will "do something" about civilian gun violence? Democrats and Republicans have their priorities on which they are unequivocally "bipartisan."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How about an AR-15 buyback program (even it does not get too many) and then send them over to Ukraine where they belong - on the battlefield.

Anonymous said...

https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?reqid=19&step=3&isuri=1&select_all_years=0&nipa_table_list=5&series=q&1=5&2=2007&3=2018&4=q&5=x&first_year=2020&6=0&7=survey&last_year=2022&scale=-9&thetable=

May 26, 2022

Defense spending was 57.8% of federal government consumption and investment in January through March 2022. *

$906.9 / $1,570.0 = 57.8%

Defense spending was 21.6% of all government consumption and investment in January through March 2022.

$906.9 / $4,200.6 = 21.6%

Defense spending was 3.7% of GDP in January through March 2022.

$906.9 / $24,384.3 = 3.7%

* Billions of dollars