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The U.S. government spends a fifth of its money on defense, stacked up in this chart against the 13 countries with the next highest defense budgets. Here’s your daily cup of hot irony: What’s currently the biggest threat to national security? Our debt.

Molly Lehman

Nov 6, 2012

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