The price of Freedom?

Worldwide Military Spending,
from the CIA World Factbook, Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation.

( Click on the map for full size).

America spends almost half of all of the world's military spending. The next closest level is all of Europe combined at less than half of what we spend.

Where does all that money go? Quite frankly I think I'd feel 'safer' if that money were going instead to end this Great Recession.