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America’s Military Budget is Too Big

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Obama's ArmyReally? Who says so? The main stream media? The pro-libs? In reality, anyone who wants to drive home their biased point that we spend too much on our military. But wait, are they telling you the truth? This is an eye opener.

Words by Wes O’Donnell, Professor of Predictive Analytics and Leadership. Managing Editor, InMilitary.com. Veteran, U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. Connect with Wes on LinkedIn or at www.wesodonnell.com

Teaching college students about data and analytics is fun; I love how data can shatter preconceptions and everyday notions of reality. Knowing that their instructor is a military veteran, a group of my students recently asked me why America spends so much on its military. They claimed it was overkill and that the United States spends more on its military than the other top nine countries combined!

Really? Let’s look at the data. And just to be impartial, we’ll use numbers from an independent resource on global security, The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

And just to put it in context, let’s gobble up all of the other countries and put it next to Africa’s total debt and the UK’s budget deficit.

Wow! The U.S. military budget is indeed massive! So, is America an aggressive, war-mongering nation? Are we looking at the complete story? Are we seeing the whole picture?

America is a rich country. In fact, we are so massively rich and wealthy that you could combine the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the next top 4 countries inside the United States!

As David McCandless famously states, “It doesn’t seem fair to not factor in the wealth of a country when assessing its military budget.”

So what happens when you take military budgets as a proportion of each country’s GDP?

It turns out that Myanmar spends the most on their military at an incredible 26% of GDP! The United States is way down in 8th place at only 4% and the United Kingdom, our strongest ally, is 29th on the list at 2%.

So what about soldiers? Who do you think has the most soldiers? It has to be China, right?

 

But China has an enormous population, of course their military is going to be large. But what happens when we add in the data-set of “population” in relation to soldiers?

Now a sharper image comes into focus. North Korea has the most soldiers per 100,000 people, followed closely by Eritrea, a small country in the Horn of Africa. The United States is in 45th place with only 507 per 100,000 and China extremely far down the list at 124th with only 164 soldiers per 100,000 people.

And finally, to give the most complete picture, let’s calculate the total armed forces of a nation in relation to its population:

Once again, the United States is ranked at 61st on the list with North Korea, Russia and Israel taking up the first, second and third highest spots respectively.

The lesson for my students? Always be skeptical. Just because something makes a good headline, doesn’t make it true, even if it is from a seemingly reputable news source. Always ask if all of the data sets are represented. A very different picture may emerge.

Originally posted 2016-10-07 14:50:02.

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Look out Haiti, Here They Come Again!

The Clinton’s are coming to help again! Is this a joke or what? There is no depth to how low the Clinton’s will go make a buck in the name of charity. Can you imagine how much “charity” they be able to provide (read receive) if she and Billy Bob are in the White House?

Bill Clinton Pushing for Clinton Foundation Haiti Relief After Fleecing Haitians

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by JEROME HUDSON 6 Oct 2016817

 In the wake of the devastating destruction to Haiti caused by Hurricane Matthew, President Bill Clinton took to Twitter and urged his six million-plus followers to go to the embattled Clinton Foundation to assist in relief efforts.

 

“Praying for everyone impacted by . Here’s how you can help in Haiti,” Clinton said his tweet, which linked to a Medium article, entitled, “Members of the Clinton Foundation Community Respond to Hurricane Matthew; Ways to Support.”

The last time tragedy struck the tiny Caribbean country, Bill and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — according to scores of enraged Haitians — used their billion dollar charity and leveraged their global connections to enrich themselves and their monied cronies.

Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010 — while 316,000 lifeless bodies lay buried under rubble, and while 300,000 Haitians suffered from injuries, with another 1.3 million displaced — the Clinton’s saw an opportunity to cash in.

Hillary Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, landed a lucrative and historically rare Haitian “gold exploitation permit,” while Clinton Foundation donors, including Digicel mobile phone company founder Denis O’Brien, were winning multi-million dollar contracts that would siphon massive profits from the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

While then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s State Department was funneling billions in relief funds to rebuild Haiti, the Clinton Foundation was leveraging its influence to guide high-dollar contracts to longtime Clinton cronies who would go on to reap millions off the catastrophe that had claimed so many lives on the devastated island.

“I deal through the Clinton Foundation,” Tony Rodham said according to a transcript of his testimony during court proceedings, obtained by The New York Times. “That gets me in touch with the Haitian officials. I hound my brother-in-law [Bill Clinton], because it’s his fund that we’re going to get our money from. And he can’t do it until the Haitian government does it.”

The anger at the Clinton’s from the Haitian people is no secret.

Indeed, dozens of Haitian protesters gathered outside the Democrat National Convention in July and railed against the Clinton’s and the Clinton Foundation for their long-reported history of using their global connections to exploit the resources and the poor people of Haiti.

“The main message is that Hillary Clinton belongs in jail,” one protester said at the time when asked what the overall message of the protest was. “We believe that the world should know about the crimes the Clinton family has committed against the country of Haiti–the money they have stolen from the earthquake victims. And we believe that were this to be anyone else, they’d be in jail right now.”

“She’s not in jail because she’s being protected by the Obama administration, the Justice Department, State Department,” the protester said.

Bill Clinton’s tweet, urging support for Haiti, smacks of irony, and Twitter followers took notice.

“Clintons still scamming off poor Haiti after a natural disaster ,” one user wrote.

“Do u realize what the Clinton Foundation did to Haiti?” another Twitter user asked.

His question was quickly answered by another user, who said, “Practically stole 6 billion promising hospitals/homes to rebuild Haiti?”

“More like literally,” another user said.

“There it is, Clinton’s looking to fill their bank accounts off another natural disaster,” another user remarked.

As Breitbart News reported, Haitians have been protesting the Clinton’s for years for their transgressions against the tiny island nation.

Originally posted 2016-10-07 09:40:48.

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Was Hillary Wired?

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Could it be she was wired to a team giving her suggestions for answers?  I thought she was choosing her words too well, much more than she always does when she is on camera. Was she listening to directions. It surely was not a microphone, as there was one on the podium. Hmm? You decide for yourself and give me some feedback by leaving a comment, see at the top of the post.

I can’t wait for the explanation on this one.  What will the pro-libs do next?

 

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Originally posted 2016-09-28 17:42:17.