From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Adam"  wrote in message
news:4333e8ab$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Monte Davis wrote:
>
>> John Cuccia  wrote:
>>>It's almost hard to believe, but with the Pentagon budget ballooning
>>>more than six-fold in the past three years -- from $11 billion in 2002
>>>to a projected $71 billion in 2005...
>>
>>
>> Umm... the CJR text got it wrong. That's GWOT spending alone.
>>
>> The Pentagon (DoD) budget for FY 2005 is $430 billion... up from $267
>> billion in FY 2000. Total discretionary government spending up about
>> 60% over the same five years, plus of course a huge new
>> non-discretionary (entitlement) cost for the Medicaid drug plan coming
>> along soon. Not to worry... nothing that would interfere with tax cuts or
>> the
>> ongoing crusade for smaller goverment, as long as free-spending
>> Democrats are kept away from the reins of power.
> It's what made me laugh out loud when the US DoD issued their report wrt
> the PRC notng how worrying it was that while facing no serious mil threat
> the PRC mil budget was climbing like it was....so what serious mil threat
> is the US facing.....
>
> Hummm 163 billion increase...what is the total PRC mil budget (at least
> the upper estimate....)?
>
> The announced figure was $29.9 billion so double it or even triple it &
> still nowhere near 163 billion....
>
> Adam

I would expect the Chinese Military is not as expensive to run as ours
though ( Fewer lobbyist and less outsourcing ,not to mention lower salaries
housing etc) . Also do those numbers include any profits from the
Military's
'private' enterprises ?

Bob Lewis

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