# Rendell FTL

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**Created:** [February 5, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rendell-ftl/187860 "2007-02-05T13:35:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blackbelt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blackbelt/32/5998_2.png) [@Blackbelt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blackbelt)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rendell-ftl/187860/50 "2007-02-06T09:51:57Z")

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> [@Anyone ever ride a rigid bike???](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-ever-ride-a-rigid-bike/27798/4):
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> [World Wide Military Expenditures](http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm)
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> The Unites States spends 466 billion on defense. The REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED spends ~ 500 Billion.
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> China and Russia both spend ~50 billion per year.
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> I agree wholeheartedly that we have to provide for our defense, but what we spend on defense is just fucking insane.

The right number is whatever is required to secure the country from attack and to make sure we do not get taken over. If that number is 466 billion, then i guess thats how much we are constitutionally mandated to spend. However, that number is greatly inflated due to wartime expenditures, which are temporary.  
Is there waste and fat in the defense budget? Of course there is, but i do not want to gut the budget to build a fucking school. And if you think that this country could never be invaded, gut the defense budget and watch what happens.

Wow, talk about the thread going off in a tangent…whatever happened to uncle eddy $pendell?

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