Today (July 2011), the debt is over 14.3 trillion dollars.
The U.S. military is in nearly 130 different nations and it has a total of about 700 military bases around the globe. It costs approximately 100 billion dollars each year to maintain these military bases.
U.S. military spending is greater than the military spending of China, Russia, Japan, India, and the rest of NATO combined.
Over the past decade, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost U.S. taxpayers well over a trillion dollars.
The United States government is now responsible for more than a third of all the government debt in the entire world.
Source:
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/16-reasons-why-the-united-stat...