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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWH 2015 budget=$26.4 billion in extra funding for Pentagon
From Breaking news headline:
White House's fiscal 2015 budget request includes separate 'opportunity, growth and security' fund that would give the Pentagon $26.4 billion in extra funding for maintenance, training and aircraft - @Reuters
remember when the Pentagon claimed it had extra money lying around its "contingency fund" that it could use to invade Syria?
Apparently it wants...MORE.
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WH 2015 budget=$26.4 billion in extra funding for Pentagon (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Mar 2014
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woo me with science
(32,139 posts)1. This needs to stay on top.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)2. As I posted yesterday, the 'cuts' in spending are illusions
They can cry all they want, but the military is getting more and more money, not less.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024599209
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)4. Thanks for your link...
Actions..always louder than words.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)5. Thank you! I have been looking for that thread.
It needs to stay on top, as we are drowning in election year bullshit.
jsr
(7,712 posts)3. Because generals are starving and can't pay their heating bills
spanone
(135,857 posts)6. sequestration?
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)7. Kick to top
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neverforget
(9,436 posts)9. The Pentagon/MIC is a parasite on the budget.
It can never have enough.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)10. Wow, that's a lot of "extra" money. We'd better cut food stamps again.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)11. kick