Republicans are addicted to defense spending
John Kyl (R-AZ) became alarmed and said this on "Meet the Press."
I can't imagine that knowing of the importance of national defense that both Republicans and Democrats wouldn't find a way to work through that process so that we still get the $1.2 trillion in cuts but it doesn’t all fall on defense as [Defense] Secretary [Leon] Panetta pointed out.
I think there is a way to avoid that if there is good will on both sides. And again I think when the reality sets in even those Democrat friends who would like to see more defense cuts ... will find ways to work around that.
What Kyl is not saying is that the reason the national debt increased during the Bush administration is because of defense spending that increased 40 per cent. That increase did not even include the cost of the Iraq and Afghan wars which has already reached $ one trillion.
Paul Krugman said this in a recent NY Times editorial about the Super Committee: Failure is Good!
Why was the Super Committee doomed to fail? Mainly because the gulf between our two major political parties is so wide. Republicans and Democrats don’t just have different priorities; they live in different intellectual and moral universes.
Rightardia hopes that DoD takes the lion's share of the cuts. US Defense spending needs to reined in. We spend more than twice as much of our GDP on defense (4.5 per cent ) as we do on the US infrastructure (2 per cent).
China spends 9 per cent of it GDP on infrastructure. This is why the Chinese have the biggest dam in the world as well as the fastest train systems.
Defense spending is like crack to the GOP. The Republicans need to get into rehab before they drive the US into insolvency.
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China spends 9 per cent of it GDP on infrastructure. This is why the Chinese have the biggest dam in the world as well as the fastest train systems.
Defense spending is like crack to the GOP. The Republicans need to get into rehab before they drive the US into insolvency.
graphic source: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Breaking-America-s-Addicti-by-Marcy-Winograd-100222-316.html
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