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As we all know, the Canadian defence budget is a pittance if compared to the rest of NATO by stating it as a percentage of our gross ...
It really hits home when you hear numbers like "... an increase of 4.8 per cent ..." and then find out that represents 19 billion dollars ...
(it's so ironic that there are so many Yank-bashers living under their protective umbrella, isn't it ... ?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64216-2005Feb4.html?
Bush to Seek $419.3 Billion for Defense
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 5, 2005; Page A07
President Bush will seek $419.3 billion for the Defense Department in the fiscal year that begins this October, a 4.8 percent increase over this year's spending, not counting the cost of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a Defense Department document obtained by The Washington Post.
The fiscal 2006 request, $19.2 billion above the Pentagon's $400.1 billion budget for this year, does not include any money for Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush requested no war funding in the 2005 budget either, but he ultimately asked Congress for $105 billion in emergency spending to meet the needs of the wars. Of that 2005 money, an $80 billion request is pending before Congress.
The 2006 request envisions defense spending growing gradually to $502.3 billion by 2011.
That increase reflects about $30 billion in cuts from previously requested defense spending levels. The new budget proposes deep cuts to a variety of weapons programs once considered vital to the military's future, including an Air Force advanced fighter plane, a stealthy Navy destroyer and the next generation of nuclear submarines, according to other budget documents obtained last month.
Still, those cuts will have "a small impact against a massive amount of defense spending," said Loren B. Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington Institute, a think tank in Arlington. Once war spending is included, he added, Defense Department expenditures in 2006 will almost certainly exceed the entire $433 billion economy of Russia.
Under the 2006 proposal, military procurement next year would dip $100 million, to $78 billion. But Bush expects weapons spending to roar back in 2007, to nearly $92 billion, and then climb to $118.6 billion by 2011.
Operations and maintenance, the largest part of the defense budget, would jump in 2006 to $147.8 billion, from this year's $137 billion.
The Army's base budget would fall by $300 million, to $100 billion. But the lion's share of war spending next year would go to the Army, pushing its budget much higher than that. The Navy and Marines would see their budgets rise to $125.6 billion in 2006, from $119.2 billion. Air Force spending would climb to $127.5 billion, from $117.8 billion.
It really hits home when you hear numbers like "... an increase of 4.8 per cent ..." and then find out that represents 19 billion dollars ...
(it's so ironic that there are so many Yank-bashers living under their protective umbrella, isn't it ... ?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64216-2005Feb4.html?
Bush to Seek $419.3 Billion for Defense
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 5, 2005; Page A07
President Bush will seek $419.3 billion for the Defense Department in the fiscal year that begins this October, a 4.8 percent increase over this year's spending, not counting the cost of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a Defense Department document obtained by The Washington Post.
The fiscal 2006 request, $19.2 billion above the Pentagon's $400.1 billion budget for this year, does not include any money for Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush requested no war funding in the 2005 budget either, but he ultimately asked Congress for $105 billion in emergency spending to meet the needs of the wars. Of that 2005 money, an $80 billion request is pending before Congress.
The 2006 request envisions defense spending growing gradually to $502.3 billion by 2011.
That increase reflects about $30 billion in cuts from previously requested defense spending levels. The new budget proposes deep cuts to a variety of weapons programs once considered vital to the military's future, including an Air Force advanced fighter plane, a stealthy Navy destroyer and the next generation of nuclear submarines, according to other budget documents obtained last month.
Still, those cuts will have "a small impact against a massive amount of defense spending," said Loren B. Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington Institute, a think tank in Arlington. Once war spending is included, he added, Defense Department expenditures in 2006 will almost certainly exceed the entire $433 billion economy of Russia.
Under the 2006 proposal, military procurement next year would dip $100 million, to $78 billion. But Bush expects weapons spending to roar back in 2007, to nearly $92 billion, and then climb to $118.6 billion by 2011.
Operations and maintenance, the largest part of the defense budget, would jump in 2006 to $147.8 billion, from this year's $137 billion.
The Army's base budget would fall by $300 million, to $100 billion. But the lion's share of war spending next year would go to the Army, pushing its budget much higher than that. The Navy and Marines would see their budgets rise to $125.6 billion in 2006, from $119.2 billion. Air Force spending would climb to $127.5 billion, from $117.8 billion.
