More Americans Die of Poverty than Terrorism

We have insane priorities:

For fiscal year 2011, $1,398 billion (48 percent) of our nation's budget is allotted for military spending (pdf). Of that, $399 billion is for paying off the interest on loans from previous military expenditures. In contrast, this year we'll only be spending $1.79 billion on homeless assistance grants like help with back rent for at-risk families.

$1,398 billion is 1.4 trillion fucking dollars.

Related-- Michael Moore on the military-industrial complex.