Inaccurate and misleading. My favorite is the typical warping of statistics to illustrate one's own point: the illusion that we spend 50% of our budget on the military, when in actuality that is only a subset of the budget.
From Wiki:

Discretionary spending, which accounts for roughly one-third of all Federal spending, includes money for things like the Army, FBI, the Coast Guard, and highway projects.

So, 50% of 1/3 is 1/6, so a more accurate figure would be that we spend 16% of our budget on the military.
This is also a paltry portion of our GDP:

As a percentage of its GDP, the United states spends 3.7% on military. This is higher than France's 2.6%, and lower than Saudi Arabia's 10%.[6] This is historically low for the United States since it peaked in 1944 at 37.8% of GDP. Even during the peak of the Vietnam War the percentage reached a high of 9.4% in 1968.[7]

Is spending 16% of our budget too high a price to have the worlds premiere military, the only thing keeping us the world's only superpower? 16 cents of your tax dollar helps ensure you keep the lifestyle you are so accustomed to.

Wingoguy: "Inaccurate and misleading. My favorite is the typical warping of statistics to illustrate one's own point: the illusion that we spend 50% of our budget on the military, when in actuality that is only a subset of the budget."

No, the clip makes it rather clear from the beginning that they are talking about discretionary spending when they reference the 50% figure. Pay more attention before commenting.

Wingoguy try this, it's a bit simpler and thus easier for you to understand.

Qualm: Yes, they do say discretionary spending. However, this not a useful statistic and misleading because the average viewer does not hold the information in his head that discretionary spending is 1/3 of the budget and that our military spending is only 3.7% of our GDP.
The author uses the figure 50% instead of 16% because it fits his needs better.

Of course it is a useful statistic, and I find your contorting explanation about the capacities of the average viewer to be insulting to them. You are backtracking and I think you're being dishonest. And did you really miss the big blue box with the words DISCRETIONARY SPENDING in it? Nevertheless, your original objection has been exposed for the nonsense that it is.

Qualm: Of course I saw the big blue letters labeled discretionary funding it in the first time. That's why I clearly address it in my original post!
Is my argument flawed? Have I provided inaccurate or falsified information from my statistics? It seems I have only shed a different point of view on the argument the original author uses.

bl968: I understand how much we spend on our military perfectly. It pays my salary. The reason I am commenting about this and the Orea cookie post is because both are oversimplifications that prey on the ignorance of the average viewer. If you want to be educated on an issue, you need to find the whole story. American military spending is not easily summed up in a 3 minute cartoon, and the information provided therein should be taken with a grain of salt; a starting point for more research, not the gospel according to Ben & Jerry.

A bit of revision going on here on your part. You initially claimed the film-maker was misleading people by making a false claim. But clearly that is not the case. You just happened to not see or hear the words "discretionary spending". Don't take us for stupid. It's obvious from your original post you thought you were correcting an oversight on the part of the film-maker when you raised the discrepency between discretionary budget and total budget. Then you went on to insult the intelligence of "average readers", when in fact it is you who failed from the beginning to read and listen for comprehension.

i bought this comic book a long time ago at an anti war rally in DC

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