What's wrong with our priorities?

Obama unveils budget blueprint

Defense: $75.5 billion in spending on Iraq and Afghanistan for the remainder of 2009, $130 billion in spending on Iraq and Afghanistan for fiscal year 2010 and $533.7 billion for Department of Defense.

Education: $46.7 billion in spending for fiscal year 2010.

Energy: $26.3 billion in projected spending for the Energy Department in fiscal year 2010.

Let's do some math... since a good percentage of our students in the future probably won't be able to considering the rate at which we fund education in this country. Knowledge economy my ass. Get a job making things that kill people, or you're sh*t out of luck.

2010 DoD budget / 2010 Education budget = $533.7 billion / $46.7 billion = 11.4282655

That's right folks, we spend over 11 times as much on defense as we do on education. Kind of hard to understand how anyone can be optimistic about the future prospects for America. We're a country that has basically no realistic threat of homeland attack/invasion (outside of terrorist ones), yet our defense budget is insanely large. I guess it's needed to maintain an imperialistic and interventionist foreign policy and the military-industrial complex that lays the foundation for it.

I think it is about time that we look at ourselves, as Americans, and decided what our true priorities are. Maybe it's time to rely on education and an intelligent foreign policy, rather than a mammoth defense budget, in order to secure our future. There's no way the model we've created for our nation so far is sustainable.