Foreign Aid and the Budget.

How do Americans think the government spends their money? Via Ezra Klein, is one answer:

To be fair, given the size of the Pentagon’s budget — $663 billion in 2010, or 19 percent of budgeted expenditures — and the extent to which we are still committed to a language of “freedom” in our foreign policy — these wars are fought for your benefit, etc. — there is definitely a sense in which the public is completely correct, and we do spend tremendous amounts on “foreign aid.”

— Jamelle Bouie