National Priorities Project is proud to release the Security Spending Primer: Getting Smart About The Pentagon Budget.  (PDF Document)

This Primer is a “one-stop-shopping” resource and has two main goals: 

• to provide comprehensive, easy-to-understand information on the complexity of the federal budget process; and
• to help build the capacity of people across the United States who want their voices and their priorities to be heard in the debate over federal spending in general and military spending in particular.

The federal budget has been called a moral document by Congresswoman Barbara Lee. Its spending priorities reflect these morals. The release of President Obama's full fiscal year 2010 budget begins to show us his administration's national priorities. Our job as citizens is to reconcile the President's budget numbers with his words.