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To: bentway who wrote (551540)	2/22/2010 6:15:20 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1573376

Now your changing the subject. The point was "people suggest it all the time", not "in-office politicians suggest it all the time". But those people do include in office politicians. I'll even include a few links. More could be found by anyone who cared enough to look. ------- Cut the Military Budget--II Comment By Barney Frank thenation.com ... REP. PAUL: Well, I would start overseas, because politically it's more palatable. Sometimes a conservative will come up and they'll have an amendment and cut 5 percent out of child health care. (Chuckles.) I don't believe in the government being involved in medical care, but that's not where I would cut. I would cut overseas spending. To operate our empire costs us a trillion dollars. So I'd bring our troops home. I wouldn't be -- ... votesmart.org -- ...Congressman Kucinich has proposed that we reform our defense programs to accurately reflect current threats. At least $60 billion in defense programs can be transferred to homeland security, education and health programs that do far more to meet the real threats Americans are facing today. kucinich.house.gov -- Pelosi says spending freeze should apply to defense ca.news.yahoo.com ...One of U.S. Rep. Barney Frank’s newest causes is reducing the military budget to address the nation’s growing federal deficit. “We will not be able to reduce the deficit without totally savaging any effort to improve the quality of life in the U.S. unless we substantially reduce the U.S. military budget, and you don’t do that by cutting the troops in Afghanistan, because once they’re there, you need to give them everything they need,” the Newton Democrat told the Taunton Daily Gazette in an interview last week... tauntongazette.com