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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by jezclaremurugan on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:20AM (#14136664)
Why can't military spends be in one classified bucket and the rest be open and 100% transparent? I don't think information on how much is spent on roads, healthcare, police, education will affect security.
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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by thomastjeffery on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @03:52AM (#14137122)
Because that's 550 billion dollars. A very significant portion of that does not need to be secret.
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Re:Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spe... by walljm on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:02AM (#14139368)
And a lot of it isn't. https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsreports/rpt/mthTreasStmt/b... breaks out how military spending is allocated to some level of detail.
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