>The United States is spending 53% of its budget this year on military expenditures.
>http://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget/FY03/DiscretionaryChart.htm

That stat is skewed. It is 53% of the "Discretionary Spending" which apparently is the budget the congress has controll over. The graph only represents (I quote from your link) "35% of the total budget". In otherwords, there ain't no way the US spend 53% of its budget on military. :-)