http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/tables.pdf
This the information for 2009, that is included in the 2011 budget proposal.
782 billion for defense.
678 billion for Social Security
676 billion for Medicare/Medicaid
FYI, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are NOT discretionary spending. So, they aren't included on the graph you showed above.
Projected future costs... 2019:
993 Billion for defense.
1133 Billion for Social Security
1339 Billion for Medicare/Medicaid
I had taken 'responses to poverty' and 'Healthcare' to include the two
Right it doesn't include Social Security and Medicare (although it does include parts of Medicare) their reason for it is:
//FCNL’s analysis looks at the federal funds budget. This is the overall budget, including discretionary, entitlement, and mandatory spending, supported by general revenues, including income taxes and estate and gift taxes. Because the FCNL analysis aims to illustrate how our income dollars are spent, it does not include trust funds, such as Social Security and Medicare, which have their own dedicated revenues.
Here’s how that makes a difference: When president’s proposal says that only 21% of the budget goes to the military, it includes Social Security and Medicare in his definition of the budget. Because this analysis starts with a bigger pie (called the “unified budget”
, the military appears as a relatively smaller slice, and social spending looks larger.
Conversely, some national organizations look only at “discretionary spending” – the part of federal spending that Congress handles through appropriations bills. In this case, they’re starting with a smaller budget pie than FCNL, so military spending appears to be a bigger slice.
But Congress has control over entitlement or “mandatory” spending as well as discretionary spending. Changes can be (and often are) made in the budgets for entitlement programs – they’re just made through a different congressional process. Whether discretionary or entitlement spending, the money still comes out of your income tax dollars. //
FCNL Budget Analysis: It's How You Slice the Pie - FCNL Issues
I could also add many reports only report on current military spending, the data I gave still points to the cost of the military and is looking to increase, and that isn't taking into account any wars America get into in the future.
As you do like to invade a country or two.
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Just a side note, when you compare the US's military spending with other countries around the world...
Which countries deployed their military to help Haiti?
Which countries deployed their military to help Pakistan?
Which countries deployed their military to help Myanmar?
If the rest of the world would get off their butts and help out once in awhile, then OUR defense spending wouldn't be QUITE so high.
However, I don't expect that to happen any time soon, so don't expect our spending to go down any time soon.
Well the costs of your empire (in denial) and market imperialism is starting to bite. Next you'll be telling me this 'reluctant superpower' only involves itself for selfless reasons. Lets you embrace the fantasy that your global dominance is all for the noble sacrifice of worldwide human liberation.
In fact just the other day someone told me the Iraq 2003 invasion was cos of Saddams 'gassing his own people' what he seemed to forget or not know is that during the Iran-Iraq war the US continued to support Saddam even after he gassed people in north Kurdistan. Not to mention US sanctions/ bombing campaigns killing near one million Iraqi.
hehehehe lol i need to go back to school hahahaha 
