Here is the article.
http://federalsafetynet.com/entitlement-spending.html
This is the source for that graphic.
The main dilemma of calling this group of programs 'entitlements" is that conservatives have turned that term into a dog whistle that means 'the poor that are sucking you dry." When we break out the list of entitlements, we see actual social programs that most of the rubes think of just welfare and probably school lunch and say to themselves 'we should cut those programs.'
Then they rally against social security and Medicare cuts.
But I digress.
The problem isn't that we have any defense spending, the problem is that we have a defense lobby that helps shift policy and that has taken every chance they can to help get us into a 2t boondoggle that made us look like complete and utter morons to the world. These lobbies (looking at you as well, green energy) take things that are good for the country and turn them into programs that fail their intent. Look at the prison lobby and the war on drugs. It's a disgusting as the defense lobby.
The military industrial complex has failed our country. But it hasn't failed the companies.
In 2020, the CEOs of the Top 5 — Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Boeing — made more than $150 million. When expanded to other top company officers required to disclose their earnings, that number goes up to an astonishing $276 million.May 5, 2021