[quote=AN]Pensions $747.1 5.7
Health Care $783.8 6.0
Education $900.8 6.9
Defense $622.2 4.8
Welfare $411.4 3.2
Interest $312.3 2.4[/quote]
Those figures are somewhat deceiving. The defense budget doesn’t count spending that is under Homeland Security or the State Department or black ops. Several reports have found that billions of our defense budget is now off-books or hidden in other departments. Here’s a conservative estimate:
[quote=Mother Jones]But the real number is even higher, because, among other things, the OMB doesn’t count supplemental spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’ve combed through this year’s budget documents to add up military-related spending throughout the entire government…. The total: $780.4 billion[/quote]
