More numbers will be rolled out over the next few weeks. Catherine Lutz, editor of "The Bases of Empire: The Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts," has said: "the new proposal for Department of Defense base budget reductions over the next five years represents only a 4 percent decline in real, or inflation-adjusted, terms, according to the Project on Defense Alternatives." http://www.accuracy.org/release/is-the-military-budget-really-being-cut
Here is PDA's new memo: http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/1201bm53.pdf In the President's speech, he said: "over the past ten years, since 9/11, our defense budget grew at an extraordinary pace. Over the next ten years, the growth in the defense budget will slow, but the fact of the matter is this—it will still grow... In fact, the defense budget will still be larger than it was toward the end of the Bush Administration." I'm on a list of analysts who want to cut the Pentagon budget. This list includes top insider-type budget analysts. I asked: "When the President said 'the defense budget will still be larger than it was toward the end of the Bush Administration,' was that a true statement in terms of constant dollars? One person responded: "Ashton Carter said that Obama's statement referred to nominal dollars (not adjusted for inflation)." One person responded: "See the numbers at http://defense.aol.com/2011/12/02/omb-dod-agree-on-523b-2013-budget-budget-chicken-game-begins/. The nominal numbers go up in the FYDP; in 2012 dollars its about flat, perhaps teeny-weeny up." So, I would sum that up by saying: the current 10 year projection is a cut from the previously projected growth. In real terms, it's cutting virtually all of the previously projected growth; it basically amounts to a freeze, in real terms, over 10 years. On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:16 PM, ken hanly <[email protected]> wrote: > After reading several articles on the cuts to defense spending I noticed > there are not actual figures showing the defense budget for last year and > this year or projected spending in the future. Is there actually a decline > or simply a decline in the rate of expansion of the budget with cuts in some > areas and increases in others? Anyone have the figures handy? > > Cheers ken > > > > Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html > Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
