Here in America we LOVE guns. We worship Guns. We equate guns with sexual potency. We want everyone around the world to have guns. Thats why we are the biggest exporter of arms, and the nation that is most likely to be at war at any given time. You see there are very good reasons we need guns. There are people out to get us. Rogue nations, boogy men, people with dark skin, that worship a different way. To make sure we can keep passin' out the guns we make sure that the five biggest arms dealing countries, (US, Britain, China, France, and Russia) are also members of the UN Security Counsel. We're not paranoid mind you.. no, no. We just like the money that weapons generate for folks like the Bushs and Cheneys. We'll leave the paranoia to the common citizen who we keep in a perpetual state of fear. Did you know that the US defence budget, (the visible budget) is as large as the rest of the world combined. Our missile defense funding is larger than most countries, and the thing doesn't even work. You were also lied to about the so called Peace Dividend, after the cold war was over. Our spending now is the same. Of course, it has to be as thugs like Osama Bin Laden are still about.
World Military Budgets:
United States 420.7
China* 51.0 Russia* 50.8 Japan 41.4 United Kingdom 41.3 France 34.9 Germany 27.4 Italy 22.3 Saudi Arabia* 22.2 India 16.2 South Korea 14.8 Israel* 9.9 Australia 9.9 Brazil 9.7 Turkey* 9.2 Canada 9.1 Spain 8.5 Netherlands 7.2 Taiwan 6.6 Greece* 6.5 Mexico* 5.6 Sweden 5.2 Iran* 5.1 North Korea* 5.0 Ukraine* 5.0 Singapore 4.7 Norway 4.2 Poland 3.9 Kuwait 3.5 Egypt* 3.3 Portugal* 3.1 Belgium 3.0 Colombia* 3.0 United Arab Emirates* 2.8 Pakistan 2.8 Denmark 2.6 Vietnam 2.3 Czech Republic 1.9 Syria* 1.9 Argentina 1.6 Philippines* 1.6 Hungary 1.4 Cuba* 1.1 Sudan* 0.7 Libya* 0.6 Yugoslavia 0.6 Luxembourg 0.2 Iraq N/A
We're going the way of the Romans. Soon to be toppled over by the weight of our military budget, and the hate we spread around the world as we muck around with the affairs of other nations.
