For every working American, the cost burden is $5590 a year for defense spending alone.

This is nearly half the pie, and the total cost per year per american for government discrectionary spending is close to $10,000 (defense included).

People are missing the MOST ESSENTIAL PIECE of this information

Its not where the money is going its to whom is getting paid by it .

The more people employed/contracted and paid by the government or working for the government are less people available to the free and open market.

In addition, those people spend money, requiring a home, food, ect - while giving back to society the delegation granted by our government (in many cases, nothing of tangible value is gained).

take a look at a cookie-cutter middle class neighborhood of houses . Visualize for every 3 houses of free market families, there is 1 house representing a family which works for the government in some capacity, or is paid by them.

This important since, the cost of goods and services relates directly with the quanitity/quality/competition of manpower providing them. With less money pocketed by the free market, most importantly the " commonwealth "/middle class, the less is available for reinvestment - and that fourth house occupied by a government interest could have been occupied by a potential inventor, workhorse, innovator, manager, ect..

The money is the front-end driver but the control it provides to society is whats most important - and right now the inneficiancies are out of control.