Where the road leads next

From the National Priorities Project Website:

Proposed Total Federal Outlays, FY2008

The following pie chart illustrates proposed total federal spending for fiscal year 2008. Fiscal year 2008 runs from October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2008.

The 'national defense' portion of the budget includes money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, if the wars continue at current pace of spending, it is likely that more money would be needed making the share of military spending slightly higher.


The discretionary budget refers to the part of the federal budget proposed by the President, and debated and decided by Congress each year. This part of the budget constitutes more than one-third of total federal spending. The remainder of the federal budget is called 'mandatory spending.' Fiscal year 2008 will run from October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2008.

Note that this chart includes the war-related spending requested by the administration as supplemental to the regular budget proposal.

[End National Priorities Project]

What could be looming in 2008 that would need that kind of National Defense spending?

Thanks to the State Department, get ready for record costs at the pump. At least we don't have to worry about heating our homes..... oh wait, winter is just around the corner.

New York Times October 26th
"Mr. Romney’s statement came as Democrats warned against military action (in Iran) but also skirmished among themselves, particularly over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s vote last month calling on the administration to declare Iran’s 125,000-member Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization."

Guess what - we are going to war with Iran, and Hillary is on board. It is American policy to play with the dollar backed by the threat of war.

The reason we are doing this has nothing to do with nuclear power, it is because Iran is selling oil without the dollar. Without oil backing the dollar, no one wants it. Japan just started buying their oil with yen. Do you think this is a coincidence? Iraq had the same deal going, and see where that landed them.

Just remember come January when gas is $4.00 per gallon and your heating bill is $300.00 per month how we ended up here. Fear not however, we will terrorize the world to buy up our debt with the threat of killing them.

One thing I am certain, our way of life is worth killing for.