53. Defense spending is 66x as large as NASA budget.
Yet you cry "what cost". If we cut defense budget by just 10% and TRIPLED NASA budget we would still have a surplus to spend on "barefoot hungry people".
It is the mother of all strawmen.
Here is an interesting Stat.
Obama FY2011 budget increases defense spending by 6.8%. The INCREASE (not whole spending just the INCREASE from previous year) is $45.2 billion.
NASA FY2011 budget is $16.8 billion.
Starting to see how cutting a bean in half isn't going to do anything to help the poor when we are pouring massive (AND INCREASING) amount of money into defense.
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