Ron Paul: Clinton didn't cut defense enough

The Ron Paul Survival Report | May 15, 1993 | Ron Paul

[publiusF27]

From the Economic Report of the President, we get...

Defense spending numbers during Clinton’s term:

1992 - $298.4 billion
1993 - $291.1
1994 - $281.6
1995 - $272.1
1996 - $265.8
1997 - $270.5
1998 - $268.2
1999 - $274.8
2000 - $294.4

So in 1993, Ron Paul was saying that the cut of less than 1% in the defense budget was not enough. The next year, Republicans took control of spending by taking the Congress, and they seemed to agree, based on the above numbers.

And yet now we’re being told that the cut of 0.97% in that year allowed the 9/11 attack. Wow. Who knew our budget was so fine-tuned that we could have spend just a few more billion back then to avoid 9/11.

[freekitty]

Amazing.

[vaudine]

"If half the waste, fraud and abuse ...in government....were brought to a halt there would probably be no need for a budget cut.."

That is an insurmountable IF because of the greedy and slovenly nature of the beast.

vaudine