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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (159029)	7/8/2001 5:41:14 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Read this George and rethink your position on defense......Published on Saturday, February 24, 2001 Washington High Fashion: High Military Spending by Frida Berrigan ....."Republicans would like us to think that the military suffered from malign neglect under President Clinton, but only by using "fuzzy math" could one possibly draw that conclusion. In dollars adjusted for inflation the United States is spending more on the military now than in the mid-1970s, when the Soviet Union and still existed and then superpower arms race was up and running. This year's defense budget is more than the next 8 biggest spenders combined and 22 times the combined military budgets of our fiercest enemies--Libya, North Korea, Cuba, Iraq and Sudan. The U.S. and its allies account for two thirds of the world's military expenditures, dwarfing that of rivals Russia and China. While conservative ideologues beat the drums for a Pentagon spending bonanza, rational, moderate scenarios like the one laid out by Lawrence Korb, former high level official in the Reagan Pentagon, are completely ignored. Korb argues for a 20% cut in the military budget, comprised entirely of Cold War behemoths like the B-2 and the Seawolf Sub, that would free up $62 billion for education, health care and rebuilding roads and bridges."