Oreos Explain the National Budget

Ben, of Ben & Jerry's, explains the Federal Budget using Oreos. Check it out. And, while a pretty good sized part of my family's budget comes from that military pile of cookies, and a lot of other people's, I still can get behind most of the principles. Those military budget cookies paid for my college (still are) my teeth being fixed (no thanks to my dad, I needed LOTS of work) and the house I live in. Remember, the military budget also pays a lot of salaries-- not just expensive bombs and stuff. It sends a lot of people to college (GI Bill) and those folks sacrafice a lot for their money (for example, why is my husband gone for six months and I'm lonely temporarily single woman?) That same hubby says that we probably could do with about half the military budget-- but a lot of that money goes to "research" and "boondoggles" like the old Bloom County cartoon alleged (with the basset hound bit-- SDI initiative... remember it?)

Anyway. I still like the video from Ben.