On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> wrote: > The thing is, reality just turned a corner. When forced to choose > between raising taxes and cutting the military budget, Republicans in > Congress chose to cut the military budget. It is likely that if > Republicans in Congress are forced to confront this choice again - and > it is likely that they will be so confronted - they will choose again > to cut military spending, rather than raise taxes.
Not really. According to Ezra and number of mainstream commentators the cuts were compared to no change in military spending. Whereas some very modest reductions were already in future pentagon plans. And these cuts were actually smaller than what the Pentagon planned. So in truth the "cut" was a modest INCREASE for the Pentagon compare to their existing plans. Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Grist Blog: http://www.grist.org/member/1598 Static page: http://www.nohairshirts.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
