I have a question. We have a $3.5T dollar budget. The pro rated sequester equals about $42B dollars. That $42B cut is shutting down carrier group deployments, WH tours, tax refunds, Blue Angel flights, causing the loss of 750,000 jobs mostly teachers, firemen and policemen, cutting medical services and meals to seniors and shutting down head start programs and that is just for starters. So here’s the question. If $42B dollars is paying for all of this then what is the other $3.458B buying us?
Where is our new TVA, interstate highway system, space program, etc.?
Department of Everything - Tom Coburn
Department of Defense Spending That Has Little to Do With National Security ... (DOD). We must eliminate waste and duplication to refocus the Pentagon to ... For example, DOD duplicates the role of the Department of Energy (DOE) and the ...
Keynesianism is a failure, even if its defense spending.
63% of all spending is for Entitlements, and they are exempt from Sequestration. The military is being raped in Operations & Maintenance funds. The cut is 40% this year. Really.