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Turns out there may be some good news after all. According to an blog in NPR  The United States may actually try to cut spending on Defense!!!! Well I’m not one to get excited over an article because chances are it’s just speculation, but either way, as long as there is an atmosphere of trying to promote defense cuts, then I am happy.

Suck on that rest of the world!

Before I get into what was in the blog I just want to say, I don’t understand why people from the right are so fine with the massive spending we have on defense or why they want to increase it to a higher level. Unless private security firms can purchase F-22’s, I should think that many military companies are largely publicly funded. I’d like to think that the United States is “wasting” money on green initiatives rather than on tanks that we’ll never use. [(By the by you know those energy star rating things run by our government? Well according to them, it turns out Gasoline Powered Alarm Clocks do save the environment!!!!) see I attack liberals as well!]

Feather Duster and Space Heater? Seems Legit

Over the past few years, the military budget has been held to an almost sacred position where there was no logical reason to cut the spending. Anyone who opposes the military is considered anti american. I think we all remember Jean Schmidt from our reading. She called Representative John Murtha a coward for wanting to pull out of Iraq. Just when does that POS have the right to call someone who earned a bronze star, two purple hearts, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry a coward? (Yes, she was apparently quoting someone else, but come on… really?)

The way one of my teachers in High school put it was that companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin provide jobs. Cutting spending to defense will lower their funding and the senators of states that have Boeing plants and Lockheed Martin plants will be the senator who just lost his/her state thousands of jobs. Therein lies Eisenhower’s Military Industrial Complex.

However senators and representatives can’t just outright say that we need jobs so that’s why we want the US to pay for 50 more tanks. They say that America needs defense and we need hundreds of tanks to defend us from any possible threat. However, nowadays that rhetoric simply won’t fly with the American people. According to Matt Leatherman of the Simson Center, in this economy people will prioritize what needs the funding. Over 2/3 of Americans are comfortable with reducing the defense budget. The people who were a part of this survey were also given information about how the pentagon budget worked.

 


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