Who pays the big pensions for top-earning defense contractors? You do.

motherjones:

Under “corporate welfare” in the dictionary, see this:

A little loophole in most Pentagon contracts puts taxpayers on the hook for bailing out Lockheed, Raytheon, and other Beltway bandits when the stock market drains their pension funds.

Occupy the Pentagon, anyone?

Gitmo costs $800,000 per detainee per year.

motherjones:

Inmates in stateside federal prisons only cost 3 percent of that.

Hey, Congress: Still looking for budget cuts?

motherjones: We’re Spending More on Nukes Than We Did During the Cold War Memo to the budget supercommittee: If you’re looking for billions in savings, check out the bloated nuclear weapons complex.
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motherjones:

We’re Spending More on Nukes Than We Did During the Cold War

Memo to the budget supercommittee: If you’re looking for billions in savings, check out the bloated nuclear weapons complex.

Report: Military Blew Shocking Amounts of Cash on Weapons Since 9/11

motherjones:

Billions of it was supposed to go to troops on the battlefield. But instead, it went to record profits for makers of fighter jets.