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Anyone watching any major news organization during Operation: Iraqi Freedom will know that the United States has a lot of manpower and a lot of equipment. What the American people might not know is the large amount of money it takes to run our military. In fact, it is in the agenda of President Bush to provide 2.1 trillion dollars to the defense department over the next five years. This amount of spending will lead us into deficit spending for the first time in four years. A bumper sticker shows the feelings of many: “It’ll be a good day when schools have all the money they need and the Air Force needs to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.” Clearly all of this money will come from taxing the hardworking citizens of this country, who in the past few years have finally been able to earn and spend enough money to get the country out of deficit spending. With all of this money being spent on the military, many people stop and wonder why this money isn’t being spent a little closer to home where we have problems of homelessness in our cities and millions live without health insurance. Many more people see breast cancer or AIDS as a larger problem then some skirmish going on in a remote part of Africa. At first glance