Fun with pie charts....................

You may have seen the chart below floating around the Intertunnel.  I suspect the floaters are trying to make a point about military spending.  As they should.  For that amount of money (and as near as I can tell, the chart reflects spending in 2015 - well before you know who became president), this quote will hopefully be true: “We’re going to make our military so big, so strong and so great, so powerful that we’re never going to have to use it."

Before we get all exercised, though, perhaps we should look at a chart showing ALL federal government spending:

So, while Military spending accounts for 54% of "discretionary" federal spending, Defense/Homeland accounts for 16.2% of all federal spending (still a really big percentage).

A stray thought:  Wouldn't it be more honest to include "Veterans" spending with the Military or Defense?  Strikes me that it is the use of the military that creates most of the veteran expense.  


charts (easier to read) from here and here