Remedial Math for Rick
Rick Santorum says anyone who thinks defense spending is part of our debt problem needs “remedial math.” As it turns out, Santorum needs remedial math. Explains former deputy assistant attorney for Ronald Reagan Bruce Fein:
Below are some figures from President Obama’s 2012 official budget request.
The baseline request for the Department of Defense (DOD) is $558 billion. The supplemental request to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is $118 billion. The request for the Department of Energy’s development and housing of nuclear weapons is $19.3 billion. DOD has $7.8 billion requested for “Miscellaneous.” The State Department requests $8.7 billion for counterterrorism programs. An additional $71.6 billion is requested for homeland security counterterrorism, including $18.1 billion for DOD and $53.5 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services. National Intelligence Programs are budgeted for $53.1 billion. The Department of Veterans Affairs requests $129.3 billion to treat wounded veterans, a figure that is climbing exponentially as soldiers return from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental and emotional traumas.
The foreign affairs budget, including both its military and counterterrorism components, is $18 billion. Payments to military and DOD civilian retirees are budgeted at $68.5 billion. Interest on the national debt attributed to past borrowing to fund the Pentagon is $185 billion.
This brings the national security budget of the United States for FY 2012 to a staggering total exceeding $1.2 trillion, or approximately one-third of the entire budget and almost 100 percent of the projected budget deficit.
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Santorum does his own tax returns. The guy must have a lot of free time on his hands, or he is so chintzy that he won’t fork up a few hundred dollars to pay a tax expert to do his returns for him. Can you visualize Santorum as the POTUS doing his own returns in the Oval Office. The man is unfit for command.