Military spending - America's biggest scam.

So asserts Ted Rall.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/ted-rall/73136/military-spending-is-the-biggest-scam-in-american-politics

"The U.S. accounts for less than 5% of the world’s population. We account for 37% of military spending worldwide, equal to the next seven countries (China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, France, Japan) combined. (And the U.S. sells a lot of hardware to most of those countries.)"