Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Pentagon budget

  • These magical results were achieved by looking only at the impacts of changes in military spending, not at the effects of changes in the overall federal budget. Thats the wrong way to go about it.
  • (The Absurdity of Uncritical Support for the Pentagon - Huffington Post)
  • It is imperative that Pakistan support our counterterrorism efforts, he said.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Washington - Republicans controlling the House of Representatives are sparing the Pentagon, military veterans and most homeland security programmes from the budget knife as action begins on a set of spending bills setting the day-to-day budgets for federal agencies.
  • (Beeld)
  • The cuts are aimed at trimming $55 billion from the Pentagon budget which will automatically take effect in January because of the failure of the Debt Supercommittee to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit this past fall.
  • (Union-News & Sunday Republican)
  • food stamps for 1.8 million people and Meals on Wheels for disabled seniors in order to limit scheduled cuts to the Pentagon budget.
  • (Des Moines Register)
  • The House Budget Committee has approved consideration of a Republican proposal to replace deep automatic cuts set to hit the Pentagon on Jan.
  • (Washington Post)
  • While the automatic cuts affect a wide swath of government, Republicans have said they will take whatever steps are needed to protect the Pentagon from absorbing an automatic 10 percent or $55 billion budget cut if Congress doesn't intervene.
  • (Oregonian)
  • Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney make a promise to the 1 percent. (Darren Hauck/Reuters) The House is back from yet another week of vacation to resume their assault on the poor.
  • (DAILY KOS)
  • Congress has ordered the Pentagon to cut its budget growth, and President Barack Obama has proposed reducing ground forces by 80,000 soldiers and 20,000 Marines.
  • (Sacramento Bee)

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