As President Eisenhower said in his farewell address: “Beware the Military Industrial Complex”.
The Defense budget is one of the largest and most bloated parts of the Federal Budget. The Secretary of Defense has even said they need to cut spending…
But the GOP and their Campaign contributors think otherwise….
The Republicans prefer to cut small, but important social programs that make a real difference in the lives of many poor people, women, children or the elderly, instead of cutting anything from Defense Contractors.
Mind you….this is the best place to find bloated and unnecessary spending that could be cut without hurting our National Defense or anyone but Haliburton and other parasitic contractors….
While media attention focuses on the cuts to government spending demanded by House Republicans and broadly accepted by Democrats, the Pentagon is poised to reap billions more in federal funds, according to sources close to the discussions. The confines of the budget negotiations established by the two parties results in a system where every extra dollar going to military spending ends up being offset by a dollar reduction in spending on domestic social programs.
via Budget Deal Would Give Pentagon Extra Funds In Exchange For Social Program Cuts.
Lost in the 21st Century 