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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (616062)	6/14/2011 12:31:59 AM
From: Les H	1 Recommendation of 716958

DOE spends most of its budge on the nuclear weapons program. The U.S. Department of Energy's FY 2011 Budget Request Despite Obama’s rhetoric about reshaping America's energy future, he’s asking for a budget that would have the Energy Department continue to spend 10 times more on nuclear weapons than energy conservation. More than 65 percent of our energy budget covers military nuclear activities and the cleanup of weapons sites. Its single largest expenditure maintains some 9,200 intact nuclear warheads. Even though the department hasn’t built a new nuclear weapon for 20 years, its weapons complex is spending at rates comparable to that during the height of the nuclear arms race in the 1950s. Even with economic stimulus funding, the department’s actual energy functions comprise only 15 percent of its total budget and continue to take a backseat to propping up the nations’ large and antiquated nuclear weapons infrastructure. ips-dc.org I don't know the size of the budget for addressing international terrorists in law enforcement. It would seem to fall in the area of national security or military-related spending. I only addressed the cuts that could be made by normalizing the budget for the Defense Department and winding down the overseas deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. That would save 350 to 450 billion dollars given the uncertainty over the budget.