Sentences with phrase «military spending accounts»

Overall, military spending accounts for about one - half of discretionary spending.

But after the Korean War broke out, U.S. overseas military spending accounted for the entire payments deficit during the 1950s and «60s and early «70s, while private - sector trade and investment were exactly in balance.

Not exact matches

But the international sector involves not only export and import trade and other current account items (emigrants» remittances, and above all, military spending) but also foreign investment and income — and foreign central bank reserves held in U.S. Treasury and other securities, that is, loans to the U.S. Government.

The top five biggest spenders were the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia and India, which accounted for 60 percent of global military spending.

In addition, one must take into account the large economic footprint of the private defense industry from companies like Lockheed Martin and Boeing who are dependent on the military for contracts to keep them going, as well as the kind of industries that one doesn't think of when they think of military spending and dependence on the military like food service contracts or transportation spending.

The chairman of the House panel, Representative John Culberson (R — TX), has told his colleagues repeatedly that boosting NSF's research account is one of his top priorities if Congress approves a new spending agreement that boosts both civilian and military spending.

Based on the best - selling memoirs of the film's protagonist, Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), «Jarhead» (military slang for Marine) tells the true account of Swofford's time spent in the Corps, from his first day in boot camp to his last day in Iraq.

The U.S. Military accounts for a significant portion of the Hawaiian economy, and in 2009 alone, the military spent over $ 12 billion in thMilitary accounts for a significant portion of the Hawaiian economy, and in 2009 alone, the military spent over $ 12 billion in thmilitary spent over $ 12 billion in the state.

However, if you have a PenFed Credit Union checking account or are a member of the military, you earn four points per dollar spent on travel purchases.

You can say oil is cheap until you account for the trillion or more dollars we've spent already in military incursions into the Middle East in the last decade to secure that oil.

In 2010 the US accounted for 42.8 % of all military spending in the world (and has doubled military spending since 2001).

The next nearest competitor, China, accounts for 7.3 % of global military spending.

To put the Ceres figure of $ 1 trillion per year in perspective, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Yearbook 2013, total military spending by the nations of the world in 2012 was 1.75 trillion dollars, with just the top six spenders accounting for more than 1 trillion of that.

On the spending side, he wants to increase discretionary spending 4 percent over the rate of inflation; shore up entitlement programs (Social Security and Medicare) with an $ 81 billion boost as a prelude to a major overhaul that includes the creation of private retirement accounts; and increase pay and benefits, including housing, for the military.

Estimating an exact scorecard is difficult however due to varying baselines and how to account for declines in spending due to such items as reduced costs for military expenses.