The Pentagon’s Biggest Budget Since World War II

The Pentagon’s Biggest Budget Since World War II

The Times:

When the Pentagon on Monday unveils its proposed 2009 budget of $515.4 billion, annual military spending, when adjusted for inflation, will have reached its highest level since World War II.

This seems fair to me. Winning the war on terror and defending our homeland are obviously more important than national healthcare or equal access to non-crippled public education. But, jeez, social security is really in trouble, we just don’t have the money to continue that kind of ridiculous spending, what with all of the “welfare queens” (a.k.a. single black women with children) living off of the hard-earned paychecks of lavishly paid CEOs.