HILL TESTIMONY - Left to right, Navy Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of Naval Operations; Navy Secretary Ray Mabus; and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James F. Amos testify before the House Armed Services Committee on the fiscal year 2012 defense budget request in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2011. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Tiffini Jones Vanderwyst$1.2 Trillion For National Security? -- CBS News
The figure in the new budget proposal nobody in power wants you to notice.
(CBS News)
What if you went to a restaurant and found it rather pricey? Still, you ordered your meal and, when done, picked up the check only to discover that it was almost twice the menu price.
Welcome to the world of the real U.S. national security budget. Normally, in media accounts, you hear about the Pentagon budget and the war-fighting supplementary funds passed by Congress for our conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. That already gets you into a startling price range -- close to $700 billion for 2012 -- but that's barely more than half of it. If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year.
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My Comment: I cannot disagree with these numbers.