Over Half of Every Tax Dollar You Give to Uncle Sam is Spent on ThisBy Phillip Schneider Conveniently omitted from the corporate/state-run media organizations is the fact that some 53 percent of your tax dollars are spent on the military. Thats right, more than half of the money you give to Uncle Sam for the privilege of being American is spent directly on military. In 2011 the budget for the US Government was over 3 trillion dollars, while military spending included a $717 billion request from the Pentagon, $200 billion towards overseas contingency funding for the two major conflicts we are engaged in, and $40 billion in black budget intelligence which includes the CIA, NSA, and other agencies where the amount of money given is never fully disclosed. In addition, $94 billion was spent on non-DOD military operations, $100 billion on health care and veterans benefits, and $400 billion was spent paying off the interest on debt raised to pay for past wars. This all adds up to over 1.6 trillion dollars spent on so-called defense. That is more than what was spent during the Second World War after being adjusted for inflation. Now it is true that defense spending is important to American interests. You might be inclined to think about how much worse off we would be without a military. Without a strong defense, if a country decided to engage us in any sort of negative way militarily we wouldnt be able to resist or hold our ground. However, what is typically called defense spending is by-and-large nothing but offense spending designed to support a policy of military interventionism which exploits many nations for their natural resources and establishes Rothschild-controlled central banks wherever and whenever they can. To see this, one needs not look beyond the excuses for going to war in the first place. From the Gulf of Tonkin incident of August 1964, to the supposed WMDs in Iraq, to Obamas attempt in the summer of 2013 to begin bombing campaigns in Syria, nearly each and every war is initiated alongside war propaganda intended to serve the special interests who profit from the lucrative military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell address of 1961. READ:Major General Smedley Butler The Military Industrial Complexs Original Whistleblower Why would they need to continuously lie to get us into war if there was a plausible reason for defending ourselves in the first place? When you take the immediate danger of American soldiers out of the equation, and in some cases any human input at all, it creates a situation where the public generally doesnt see any problem with bombing the living daylights out of another country because it is out of sight, out of mind. For this reason, the drone program has become one of the militarys most insidious operations in history. To put the drone program into perspective you have to understand its scale and its ability to remain covert. During the Obama presidency alone, the US has bombed a total of eight countries: Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Uganda, and Pakistan. Also, Obama became the worlds first Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another Nobel Peace Prize winner when he authorized a strike on an Afghan hospital run by the 1999 Peace Prize recipient Doctors Without Borders, killing at least 22 people. And somehow, bombs keep on falling in places where Obama boasts that he has ended two wars. Arecent whistleblower exposed the fact that about 90 percent of those killed in drone strikes are not the intended targets. Yes, you heard that right. For every ten people killed by American drones, nine are innocent bystanders, some of which are merely patients in a hospital suspected of harboring terrorists. What is war but mass murder on a scale impossible by private police forces? Austrian economist Murray Rothbard In 2014 one fighter jet ended up costing the US $400 billion dollars. That amount of money could have payed for every homeless person in America to have a house worth $600,000. Imagine what that kind of money could have done if it were spent on humanitarian efforts, or better yet, ifleft in the hands of hardworking Americans who are supporting the economy through their free market decisions. At the end of the day, we are all cash-cows for Uncle Sam and his globalist military industrial complex. This short video puts it all nicely into perspective: Read more articles from Phillip Schneider. Phillip Schneider is a student and a contributing author to Waking Times. Like Waking Times on Facebook. Follow Waking Times on Twitter. This article (Over Half of Every Tax Dollar You Give to Uncle Sam is Spent on This) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commonslicense with attribution to Phillip Schneider andWakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement. With the advent of robot war war by proxy and death from remote desktops. Its more like Terminator here we go. That our wealth is extracted from us by this deceptive and hidden system is simply a sign of the slavery that we are accepting by default. If we remain subject to a system that asserts its right to use deadly force against us under the presumption that it has authority over us, in defense of the perpetrators of the system, then we have essentially given our consent to live under tyranny. If we want to change this, we will need to start paying attention more closely. EVERY GOP candidate except Rand Paul is cheerleading for more military spending.even Trumpalthough he does say reform needs to happen at the Pentagram Defense contractors rip us off. Even worse, the Russian war planes and Chinese weapons are better than ours. at a fraction of the cost too Americans are insane to tolerate this.when will it end? 