Comment Re: And by that he means (Score 2) 349
The food stamp program is $74 billion according to this story http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/...
According to http://www.reuters.com/article... the iraq war has cost roughly 2 Trillion. So the GP is correct.
Actually I found a better website http://www.usgovernmentspendin... If you add up the Pensions (which the lions share is SSA), Health (Medicare), and Welfare, You get a total spend of 2287.5 billion spent on social welfare programs.
Considering that our total 2015 budget was 3,650.5 billion, that means we spent 62% of our budget on welfare programs. If my math is correct.
Now look at military spending for 2015 and it is 820.2, smaller than either SSA, or Health spending. and only 22% of the budget. If my math is correct