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Good morning. I am the director here in brookings but i want to welcome everybody to the event today. How much money for defense is enough . This event began with a call i got from someone i respect he said to me, simply, how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend on defense . I know a bit about the federal budget, but i have to confess, im a lot more comfortable talking about things like Social Security, low Income Home Energy assistance programs, the state and local Tax Deduction and about the Defense Budget. So i called michael hamlin, my colleague here, and i put the question to him. How much of the u. S. Spent on defense. Mike said, funny last, i just finished a 20,000 word answer to that question. So here we are. You could read it on her websit ....
I want to welcome everybody to the events today. How much money for the defense is enough . This began with a call i got from someone i respect who said toyo me simply how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend. I have to confess im more i ame comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity and about the defensee budget. I called my colleague here at brookings and i put the question to him how much should the u. S. Spend on defense and he said funny you asked i just finished an answer to that question so here we are and you can read all 20,000 words on the website but he wont try to read them all today. I want to start with the question i cant answer how much did the u. S. Spend, so can we get the first slide. The short answer is we spend a lot on defense. Theres lots of ways to measure but letsd start with a few basics. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget in the last ....
I want to welcome everybody to the events today. How much money for the defense is enough . This began with a call i got from someone i respect who said toyo me simply how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend. I have to confess im more i ame comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity and about the defensee budget. I called my colleague here at brookings and i put the question to him how much should the u. S. Spend on defense and he said funny you asked i just finished an answer to that question so here we are and you can read all 20,000 words on the website but he wont try to read them all today. I want to start with the question i cant answer how much did the u. S. Spend, so can we get the first slide. The short answer is we spend a lot on defense. Theres lots of ways to measure but letsd start with a few basics. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget in the last ....
I want to welcome everybody to the events today. How much money for the defense is enough . This began with a call i got from someone i respect who said toyo me simply how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend. I have to confess im more i ame comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity and about the defensee budget. I called my colleague here at brookings and i put the question to him how much should the u. S. Spend on defense and he said funny you asked i just finished an answer to that question so here we are and you can read all 20,000 words on the website but he wont try to read them all today. I want to start with the question i cant answer how much did the u. S. Spend, so can we get the first slide. The short answer is we spend a lot on defense. Theres lots of ways to measure but letsd start with a few basics. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget in the last ....