LIMBAUGH: We're spending as much on environmental protection as we are on defense and homeland security. And, yet when there's a crisis of deficits, do you ever hear anybody say, "We need to reduce our expenditures on the environment"? No, they always focus on the military.

[A]ccording to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the $403.6 billion dedicated to the departments of Defense and Homeland Security in the fiscal 2004 federal budget is more than 20 times the $19.1 billion allocated to the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency. Another indicator, based on the OMB's classification (Excel document) of federal spending by function (rather than by department or agency), placed 2004 spending on "national defense" at $455.9 billion -- more than 14 times the $30.7 billion listed for "natural resources and environment."