Pormpted by a thread here on dKos, someone asked how best to counter the claims by the GOP, that military spending vs. the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is no big issue.
So I ran a little math equation on Excel last night, to try and find some sense of scale on what the Pentagon spends on our dumb, or more accurately under ChimpCo., our children's and grandchildren's dime and found some rather sobering statistics.
Many times conservatives will try and point out that our military spending compared to the GDP is not that great. But this is really a meaningless comparison Mainly because almost every penny spent on "Military Spending" is contained within the GDP, and if you look at taxes overall vs. GDP it is not that much either.
So by their own logic, we are not being taxed much at all, so modest tax increases to fix our roads, keep our schools open, and secure our Social Security, and provide universal health care coverage should be no big deal.. right?
Of course that is not how they will talk out of both sides of their mouths.
So anything vs. GDP is rather useless.
But as the old saying goes, updated for the new millennium... a trillion here, a trillion there, eventually it adds up to real money.
Now, to put the number in perspective (I did this early in the AM this morning, so it is current) the following yardstick on what the size of these numbers should sober-up anyone with a functioning brain stem ...
721,651 seconds ago was last Sunday
721,651 minutes ago was the middle of last May
721,651 hours ago the League of Nations was established
721,651 days ago Jesus was 26 years old
721,651 dollars ago, was what the Pentagon spent in the time it took you to read this (60 seconds).