Pentagon budget must rise to fund current plans

Well, I don’t get why we cannot just ‘borrow’ more money from China, like we did under the Bush administration. But it is without a doubt true that we will need more money to fund these idiotic wars that only create hell-on-earth for the people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan….. and will create more terrorism around the world. That includes the USA.

U.S. defense spending in coming years must rise roughly 6 percent on average from the record sum sought by President Barack Obama this year just to meet current plans, Congress's budget office said Wednesday. An average of $567 billion would be needed annually, in constant 2010 dollars, from 2011 to 2028, not including any war funding, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated. This is about 6 percent more than the bumper $534 billion requested in the base fiscal 2010 Defense Department budget, Matthew Goldberg, CBO's acting assistant director, told the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee.

Seems to me that we could do better things with our money than throw it away on evil shit like this.

Article here.