The military budget that President Bush released is much bigger than the official summaries let on
It’s time to sharpen the scissors
Slate
by Fred Kaplan
02/05/07
The military budget that President Bush released today is much bigger than the official summaries let on. It’s not $481.4 billion, as the Defense Department is claiming. No, a squint through the fine print of the White House and Pentagon budget documents reveals that the true request for new military-spending authority comes to $739 billion. Measured in real terms (that is, adjusted for inflation), that’s about one-third higher than the previous record for U.S. military spending, set in 1952, when more than 30,000 American soldiers were dying in the Korean War and the Pentagon was embarking on its massive Cold War rearmament drive...
http://www.slate.com/id/2159102
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Kaplan
Slate
by Fred Kaplan
02/05/07
The military budget that President Bush released today is much bigger than the official summaries let on. It’s not $481.4 billion, as the Defense Department is claiming. No, a squint through the fine print of the White House and Pentagon budget documents reveals that the true request for new military-spending authority comes to $739 billion. Measured in real terms (that is, adjusted for inflation), that’s about one-third higher than the previous record for U.S. military spending, set in 1952, when more than 30,000 American soldiers were dying in the Korean War and the Pentagon was embarking on its massive Cold War rearmament drive...
http://www.slate.com/id/2159102
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Kaplan
rudkla - 7. Feb, 13:39
