Defense Spending

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• A Jobs Summit that Works

  
  New Majority — Authority: 151
  Good for Newt for calling his own. Here are some things we should be talking about: 1) A 5-year extension of the Bush tax cuts. This is no time to be raising taxes. While the ideology of the governing party rules out making the Bush tax cuts permanent, economics tells us that short extensions do no good at all. ...
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• Defending Obama…Again

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  I caught a lot of flack from my Republican friends for my post blaming the FY2009 deficit on Bush instead of Obama. Well, I must be a glutton for punishment because I can’t resist jumping (albeit reluctantly) to Obama’s defense again. I’m venting my spleen for two reason. First, FoxNews.com posted a story ...
  2 days ago

• How dare you criticize wasteful defense spending! - David Sirota

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  So you think its only terrorist-appeasing lefties who are down on Pentagon profligacy? Think again.   »  noticia original
  3 days ago

• Global Military & Defense Budgets

  
  Prose Before Hos — Authority: 465
  Via Global Issues : * World military expenditure in 2008 is estimated to have reached $1.464 trillion in current dollars * This represents a 4 per cent increase in real terms since 2007 and a 45 per cent increase over the 10-year period since 1999; * This corresponds to 2.4 per cent of world gross domestic ...
  6 days ago

• Military Spending and Development Aid

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  View This Poll survey software The correct answer is here . A comparison between aid spending and military spending for a selection of countries is  here . I should add that I believe development aid is very important, but I don’t believe that it can solve all problems, that it doesn’t create problems , ...
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• Defense Spending Goes Up by 20%

  
  ALAIWAH! — Authority: 139
  Pakistan’s defence expenditures may exceed the budgetary allocation of Rs343 billion by about 20 per cent during the current fiscal year because of the military operation against militants.Sources told Dawn that the expenditures were estimated to be somewhere between Rs400 billion and Rs410 billion, up by around ...
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• Discouraging Factoids Of The Day: Afghanistan Edition

  
  BrianKaneOnline — Authority: 427
  As of September, 2009, the Taliban and affiliated warlords and insurgents dominate 80% of the countryside in Afghanistan, as indicated on the map above. The cost of sending ONE soldier to Afghanistan for one year is $1,000,000 according to estimates used by the White House . The much-debated 40,000-troop escalation ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sunday, November 16, 2009

  
  Rising in Phoenix — Authority: 129
  From RealityChex, http://www.realitychex.com .. .if Catholic Bishops demand a voice in legislation, then they must do what all other special interests in Washington do: register as lobbyists and surrender their tax-exempt status. Bill Press, writing in the Washington Post, is appalled that the House has given ...
  2 weeks ago

• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Cmon Obama, Lets have a real buildup in Afghanistan!

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 124
  This article, by Richard Lee, was posted to The Rag Blog, November 11, 2009 To Barack Obama: Let’s have a military buildup! You can show those crazy-ass generals at the Pentagon that you aren’t just a chicken-shit weenie from Harvard. You gotta do it right, however. Stop waffling about a measly 40,000 or 44,000 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Enough to Make Me Wish I’d Voted for Dennis Kucinich After All

  
  Enough is Enough — Authority: 113
  Everyone said it would have been a wasted vote, but at least I would have felt better about things if I’d voted my conscience instead of giving in to the fearmongering. (Granted, the idea of McCain and Palin in office WAS pretty frickin’ scary.) I read this at Common Dreams today. Kucinich: Why Is It We Have ...
  2 weeks ago

• FM newswire, 12 November – links to old-fashioned journalism

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 534
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 4 sections, all with hot news.Links to 4 interesting articles of news and analysisQuote of the DayNews about themes from 2 posts past on the FM websiteThought for the day (-1)Plus an Afterword(I)  Links to interesting news and analysis(a)  “State ...
  2 weeks ago

• Morning Bell: Keeping Up Our End of the Bargain With Those Who Serve

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 759
  Today, we at The Heritage Foundation will honor Veterans Day by pausing to remember those who sacrifice in defense of freedom for our country. Heritage honors all who serve past and present in the United States Armed Forces, their families, and all military retirees and veterans. We solemnly remember those fallen ...
  2 weeks ago

• Massive Defense Spending Leads to Job Loss by Dean Baker

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  There is a major national ad campaign, funded by the oil industry and other usual suspects, to convince the public that measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and slow global warming will result in massive job loss. This ad campaign warns of slower growth and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Because, as we all know, Military Spending Doesn’t Count

  
  The United States of Jamerica — Authority: 422
  New York Times : The nation’s top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though President Obama has pledged to end the Bush administration practice of paying for the conflicts ...
  3 weeks ago

• >>Rising Debt, Sinking Security

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 142
  Rising Debt, Sinking Security » The Foundry As the Obama administration and the liberals in Congress push our nation deeper and deeper in debt they are cutting back on our national security and defense spending.  We are fighting wars on two fronts and they are cutting back on weapons and supplies our troops ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rising Debt, Sinking Security

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 759
  It turns out that neither nuclear weapons nor terrorism may be the greatest threat to American prosperity and security. Instead, it may be something we hear very little about in the mainstream media: our burgeoning national debt. Runaway spending on entitlements, bailouts, and stimulus bills are driving the budget ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Week in Government Failure

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Over at Downsizing Government , we focused on failures in the following departments this week: Commerce: corporate welfare in Ohio Defense: cost overruns in the Pentagon’s space programs Energy: central planners gamble with taxpayer money HUD: subsidizing private firms to operate public housing isn’t ...
  3 weeks ago

• Because, as we all know, Military Spending Doesn’t Count

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 680
  New York Times : The nation’s top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though President Obama has pledged to end the Bush administration practice of paying for the conflicts with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Attorney Calls for Formal Investigation of DoD Contract for Study of Portable Lie Detectors

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  In a post almost seven months ago, I reported on a claim that the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, a hand-held portable lie detector system made by Lafayette Instrument Company , was never tested for countermeasures before it was deployed to troops in combat zones and that it was the success ...
  3 weeks ago

• Flashback: 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  Today, I offer a flashback to a post I published one year ago today which offered 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama president of the United States.  Was I right? 1. Obama said he wants to establish a civilian national security force and, in doing so, further enlarge the federal government. 2.  Obama ...
  4 weeks ago

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