The U.S.A. has a defense budget higher than the top 5 combined! The U.S. fake war on "terrorism" is costing the U.S. billions. Even tho the total number of worldwide attacks in 2011, however, dropped by almost 12 percent from 2010 and nearly 29 percent from 2007. "In cases where the religious affiliation of terrorism casualties could be determined, Muslims suffered between 82 and 97% of terrorism-related fatalities over the past five years. Of 978 terrorism-related kidnapping last year, only three hostages were private U.S. citizens, or .003 percent. A private citizen is defined as 'any U.S. citizen not acting in an official capacity on behalf of the U.S. government. And of the 13,288 people killed by terrorist attacks last year, seventeen were private U.S. citizens, or .001 percent.
Now to turn to another waste of U.S. tax payers money, the so called "war on drug". The U.S. federal government spent over $15 billion dollars in 2010 on the "war on drugs", at a rate of about $500 per second. State and local governments spent at least another 25 billion dollars. The number of people already arrested for drug law offenses this Year is 548,147. Someone is arrested for violating a drug law every 19 seconds. Arrests for drug law violations this year are expected to exceed the 1,663,582 arrests of 2009. Law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations than for any other offense in 2009.
Police arrested an estimated 858,408 people for cannabis violations in 2009. Of those charged with cannabis violations, approximately 89 percent were charged with possession only. An American is arrested for violating cannabis laws every 30 seconds.
On Dec. 31, 2011, there were 197,050 sentenced prisoners under federal jurisdiction. Of these, 94,600 were serving time for drug offenses, 14,900 for violent offenses, 10,700 for property offenses, and 69,000 for "public order" offenses (of which 22,100 were sentenced for immigration offenses, 29,800 for weapons offenses, and 17.100 for "other". Since December 31, 1995, the U.S. prison population has grown an average of 43,266 inmates per year. About 25 percent are sentenced for drug law violations. On Dec. 31, 2010, there were 1,362,028 sentenced prisoners under state jurisdiction. Of these, 237,000 were serving time for drug offenses, 725,000 for violent offenses, 249,500 for property offenses, 142,500 for "public order" of0fenses (which include weapons, drunk driving, court offenses, commercialized vice, morals and decency offenses, liquor law violations, and other public-order offenses), and 7,900 for "other/unspecified". The average cost to house an inmate per year is $47,102.
Of the 4,055,514 adults on probation in the US at the end of 2010, 26% (1,054,434) were drug offenders. Of the 840,676 people on probation at the end of 2010, 35% (294,237) were drug offenders.
The U.S. needs to get rid of the fake wars that the U.S. tax payers are all fighting!
