Monday, October 31, 2011

The Pentagon vs. the Welfare State

Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
WASHINGTON -- We shouldn't gut defense. A central question of our budget debates is how much we allow growing social spending to crowd out the military and, in effect, force the United States into a dangerous, slow-motion disarmament.People who see military cuts as an easy way to reduce budget deficits forget that this has already occurred. From the late 1980s to 2010, America's armed forces dropped from 2.1 million men and women to about 1.4 million. The downsizing -- the "peace dividend" from the end of the Cold War -- was not undone by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan....

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/10/31/the_pentagon_vs_the_welfare_state_111864.html

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