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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (217025)2/8/2007 8:20:41 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Bush Defense Budget Comparable to World War II Budget

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On Monday, the Bush administration released details of its proposed military budget for 2008. According to Steven Kosiak of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, it is the biggest military spending request since 1946 -- the last year of budgeting for World War II.

You'd think that would warrant splashy coverage in the national media, but in fact all of the major papers -- the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal -- consigned the story to the bottom of an inside page. Many of the key details about the budget were reported last week by Bloomberg Business News reporter Tony Capaccio, and the big papers seemed to treat the formal release of budget documents on Monday as a ho-hum affair. Page One was reserved for more important news, like the fact that it is cold outside.

Which raises an interesting question. Is higher defense spending now so wired into popular expectations that the biggest defense budget in two generations isn't news? As Capaccio pointed out on Feb. 3, the proposed defense budget would represent the tenth consecutive year of real increases in military outlays since a post-cold-war lull in spending.
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