Shock and Audit: The Hidden Defense Budget
Cost overruns for major weapons programs now total $296 billion. We could never afford this rampant squandering of public money, but now, with the economy in crisis, the need to end the Pentagon's profligacy has become even more urgent. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Ike warned us when he left office and he was correct. However, if one tenth of the salaries in the USA derive from spending on the military and if in this economic climate someone could make the American military bubble contract to a rational size, what would that do to the American economy. How much of the ecoquake would transmit to the rest of the world as the one we are in did. Not a pretty picture. You're dammed if you do and dammed if you dont.