Cut the Military Budget--II

When I asked him years ago what he thought about military spending as stimulus, Alan Greenspan, to his credit, noted that from an economic standpoint military spending was like insurance: if necessary to meet its primary need, it had to be done, but it was not good for the economy; and to the extent that it could be reduced, the economy would benefit. Full Story »

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Glenn LaBauve
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by Glenn LaBauve - Dec. 29, 2009

Cong. Franks is a breath of fresh air in a rather stank dungeon that is congress./

Military spending is out of control, It places our citizens at a disadvange when social programs are proposed and there are no coins left for butter since the house was mortaged to by guns and ammo far in excess of anything we could ever need.

Both parties have for too long indulged the implicit notion that military spending is somehow irrelevant to reducing the deficit and have resisted applying to military spending the standards of efficiency that are applied to other programs

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