If McCain loses....

[steven787]

TheRealMafoo said:

steven787 said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Leaving Iraq.

 

How does $10B/month, or the $700 Billion we spent have anything to do with the state of our country... ;)

 

in 2000, the US budget request for the 2001 defense department was $575 Billion (I can not find what we spent). Last year (7 years later), we spent $625 Billion on defense.

I am not sure where 120 billion a year comes from. Obama also wants to raise the number of military troops by 92,000. He wants to spend money on every aspect of the military, not to mention increase forces in Afghanistan. 

Here is the page:

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/defense/

 

 

The cost of having troops deployed is far greater than increasing the number of enlisted.

 

Since when did reps run on a platform of discouraging enlistment.