Military

America's 4 richest counties all surround the Pentagon. Defense contractors discovered money can't travel far from where it's printed.

15,000 nuclear weapons can kill everyone 2.6 times. After the first death, you're just showing off with expensive redundancy.

US military spending 1914-2007. Countries spend trillions preparing to kill each other, then kill each other, then prepare again. Beautiful cycle.

US spends 37% of global military budget with 4.4% of world population. $600 billion on weapons. Switzerland makes chocolate instead.

$1.8 trillion global military spending vs $100 million brain research. Chart required 17,000 pixels high to show military spending properly.

Pentagon lost $2.3 trillion announced Sept 10, 2001. Next day planes hit towers. Perfect timing for forgetting about military waste.

Pentagon paid $1.1 trillion to convicted fraudulent defense contractors over 10 years, then gave them raises for stealing from taxpayers.