An expanding military budget taxpayers can’t afford
Boston Globe
by US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
05/20/08
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. … 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. Meanwhile, as military spending explodes, the middle class in America is shrinking, poverty is increasing and the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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by US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
05/20/08
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. … 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. Meanwhile, as military spending explodes, the middle class in America is shrinking, poverty is increasing and the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider...
http://tinyurl.com/4v9szu
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+budget
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+spending
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=middle+class
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=poverty
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernie+Sanders
rudkla - 21. Mai, 10:26
