The Senate just sent to Pres Obama a $ 680 billion defense budget for fiscal 2010. That includes $ 130 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, almost a billion for a fence on the Mexican border, a 3.4 % pay raise for the military and an increase in the active-duty force by 40,000. You might think that with all this spending they could come up with some for health care, especially since $ 130 billion is going partly to a war we should never have fought in the first place. The price of a health care plan has been stated to be around $ one trillion over 10 years. The defense budget will be $ 6,800,000,000,000 over that period. Will we ever get defense spending under control, especially when there are other equally important concerns.
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