{"id":10407,"date":"2010-10-07T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10407"},"modified":"2010-10-07T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T19:04:42","slug":"arithmetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10407","title":{"rendered":"Arithmetic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Start with 700,000,000,000.<\/p>\n

Divide it by 365.<\/p>\n

1,917,808,219.13<\/p>\n

Divide that by 24.<\/p>\n

79,908,675.8<\/p>\n

Divide that by 60.<\/p>\n

1,331,811.26<\/p>\n

Divide that by 60.<\/p>\n

That gives you 22,196.85 .<\/p>\n

That's how much money the US Department of Defense officially spends in one second. $22,196.<\/p>\n

Or, one second of DoD budget = a top of the line Honda Civic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

31.5 million top of the line Honda Civics a year, even.<\/p>\n

The DoD spends roughly $80,000,000 per day.<\/p>\n

The poverty line in the US for a family of four is $22,050 \/ year.<\/p>\n

So, in one day, the US Department Defense spends more money that it would take to keep 3,624 families-of-four just above the poverty line, for a year. <\/p>\n

14,496 people for a year = one day of defense spending.<\/p>\n

Our priorities are broken.<\/p>\n

On a lighter note, from the album \"Reading, Writing and Arithmetic\" here's The Sundays with \"Joy\":
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Start with 700,000,000,000. Divide it by 365. 1,917,808,219.13 Divide that by 24. 79,908,675.8 Divide that by 60. 1,331,811.26 Divide that by 60. That gives you 22,196.85 . That's how much money the US Department of Defense officially spends in one second. $22,196. Or, one second of DoD budget = a top of the line Honda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}