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Defense cuts likely to ensue from the failure of the Obama administration and Congress to agree on the budget would jeopardize U.S. security, according to a Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs paper.
The cuts now being contemplated vastly exceed anything the United States has experienced in the post-World War II era, said the introduction to a JINSA paper published this week that compiles analyses from former officers of all five branches of the U.S. military.
While projections of future defense increases after many years of decline make the scenarios being used look less severe, the paper said, there is nothing to assure the American people and our allies that, given the serious fiscal condition in which we now find ourselves, defense spending will not only continue to decline as required by the 2011 budget agreement, but may be cut further as our political leadership avoids reforming our entitlement culture and bringing the U.S. fiscal house, tax code and investment strategies into the 21st century.
A number of top defense officials in recent weeks have decried the possible $1 trillion in defense cuts ensuing from the failure of last years congressional supercommittee to agree on a budget that would address the national debt. The agreement to set up the supercommittee included automatic across-the-board cuts should it fail to come up with a proposal that Congress would pass.
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WilliamPitt
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(11,641 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)None whatsoever...
creeksneakers2
(7,486 posts)It obvious where these people are coming from.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Not so much for the Butter over Guns crowd.
Ilsa
(61,717 posts)of the report went to Liz Cheney, Dan Senor, Bill Kristol, etc for the neocon chickenhawk endorsement.
Ilsa
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(25,592 posts)Howya gonna get richer without killing innocents over their minerals?