Monday, January 28, 2008

Monday, Monday... Etcetera and Military Spending

Supposed to be warm and sunny? Not by a long shot. It's cool with the wind from the south by coming across cold ground. And the sun is hiding behind a thick layer of clouds. Darn. Did get out to the course and walked around for an hour; and Kenny Hudson did load up his pull cart with his clubs and was all set to play then decided against it as it was much colder than he anticipated. Me too. Darn again.

Guess I'll work on the taxes.

World turns.

Oh, one other thing. Watched a little more of the Story of Stuff over Diane's shoulder. Missed this statistic: 50% of our tax dollars go to the Military. Say not so; certainly not; can't be. Can it? Guess what. I googled it and the top entry was this. Shows 51% goes to current military (31%) and past military (20%). The data is provided by an outfit called the War Resisters League. Which means they do have an agenda: make Defense spending appear to be gargantuan and way out of proportion to the need. So, for the moment, I take it with a grain of salt while I do some more research. But not at the moment.

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