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An expanding military budget taxpayers can't afford
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP May 22, 2008 09:41pm |
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| Category | Op-Ed by Candidate |
| Media | Newspaper - Boston Globe |
| News Date | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 03:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Bernie Sanders
During the next few weeks Congress will consider hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending, yet this legislation will receive relatively little review and scrutiny. Spending by Pentagon officials continues to grow at an incredible rate and it is time for Congress to determine whether this level of funding makes sense.
President Eisenhower, the five-star Army general who was the military commander of the European theater during World War II, laid out stark choices that he and the country faced during his first year in the White House. Fast-forward 48 years to the last year of George W. Bush's presidency, and it is remarkable how prescient Eisenhower was.
Today, Bush's military budget is $515 billion, more than half of all discretionary spending. This is in addition to the $200 billion a year being spent on the war in Iraq, and another $16 billion spent on nuclear weapons. |
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