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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: zzpat who wrote (1061682)3/22/2018 1:59:57 PM
From: Broken_Clock  Read Replies (1) of 1575700
 
The USSR collapsed a long time ago and yet our military spending is soaring. Why? Because people like you fell for the lies about WMDs and a war on terror and then you didn't raise taxes to pay for any of it. Now, after your side failed you want to blame me for not cutting spending. Now that's pathetic.
Better get the Dems on board if you want to cut military spending dimwit warmonger hypocrite.

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politifact.com

The most recent Obama budget proposed a 7.8 percent increase in the base Defense Department budget between 2015 and 2016. The spending bill enacted this fall puts the defense budget on a path to start growing in fiscal year 2016, up about 6 percent from the previous year.

"It’s still not quite as much as the president requested, but it’s much closer," said Todd Harrison, director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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