Sentences with phrase «of military spending»

The comparison of military spending as an assessment of burden sharing thus has long been a common practice, see the aforementioned report.

As a result of huge amounts of military spending, the national debt is massive.

Currently, we spend about $ 11 billion annually on school lunches — less than a month's worth of military spending.

There are two easy answers for this, namely a) Because the US military is present in the region, so the people feel secure from Russian attack and b) because the voters in these countries vote for social services like health care instead of military spending.

that's exactly what republicans are saying and wil continue to say because of military spending in their districts and kick backs from foreign governments who don't have to cover thecost of their own security needs.

Laingen started the network in 2004, while working for Minnesota Wire, a small manufacturing company that realized that high - tech entrepreneurs needed some way to band together and tap into the rich vein of military spending.

When foreign funds could not be borrowed, countries had to pay gold to defray the costs of their military spending, or go off gold to print money freely and see their currencies depreciate.

Equally alarming, it is virtually impossible for a member of Congress or an ordinary citizen to obtain even a modest handle on the actual size of military spending or its impact on the structure and functioning of our economic system.

«They're talking about cutting bed nets for malaria and leaving every piece of military spending untouched,» said the Rev. Jim Wallis, who leads the Christian group Sojourners, referring to Republican spending proposals for the rest of this year.

Reduction of military spending as well as reform of Medicare and Social Security are also necessary.

There was a little about the danger of Islamic Jihad, and so no criticism of military spending.

What would it mean to proclaim the ways of Jesus to a government that only speaks the language of military spending and protecting its own interests?

If you compare the size of their respective military budgets, in 2009 the United States spent 43 % of the world total of military spending and China about 7 %.

After the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan adopted a policy of high levels of military spending to force the USSR to match this spending on the premise that the U.S. had an economy more capable of engaging in this defense spending without collapsing than the Soviets, a concept many considered historically vindicated when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, following in close succession by the splintering of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, and the unification of Germany.

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.

Please remember that even though the money spent on it was a lot from the perspective of an average person, it was a small drop in the bucket of military spending at the time.

Support science, knowledge, technology instead of military spending (war is the cause of a lot of famine around the world), helping and understanding people instead of suppressing them.

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

the voters in these countries [Germany, France, UK etc.] vote for social services like health care instead of military spending.

Of all military spending, energy accounts for a small proportion, roughly less than 2 % of total military expenditures and 2 % of total US energy usage — but is 93 % of all US government energy consumption.In fact, the US military is the single biggest consumer of energy in the nation, at about 932 trillion BTU in 2009, resulting in 4 % of all US carbon emissions.

That's 42.8 % of all military spending in the world.