Sentences with phrase «defense budget expenditures»
Especially considering that a large - but - impossible - to - quantify amount of defense budget expenditures are used to militarily secure petroleum exporting regions — this is just backwards: According to the Institute for Policy Studies, for every $ 1 the US spends on climate security (funding cleantech like renewable energy or high speed rail), it will spend $ 42 on the military.
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A defense official said that US aid did not meet all the requirements, and that the Ministry of Defense will have to make up one third of the expenditure from its shekel defense official said that US aid did not meet all the requirements, and that the Ministry of Defense will have to make up one third of the expenditure from its shekel Defense will have to make up one third of the expenditure from its shekel budget.
If these figures loom large, recall that our military expenditures are greater by still another factor of ten (defense budget for 1960 is $ 41 billion).
It should be noted that we have not provided comparable projections on defense R&D because the budget resolution does not contain detailed assumptions on projected defense expenditures.
It is of grave concern to the research community that President Trump's budget proposal — which would fund the agency at a 15 - year low — values investments in defense above all other federal expenditures.»
During the Cold War, our defense expenditures as a percentage of the gross domestic product hovered around 5 percent, placing enormous pressure on U.S. interest rates — including mortgage rates — and generating large budget deficits.