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JAN 26 2017, 10:40 PM ET
by ALEX JOHNSON
President Donald Trump said Thursday night that he is willing to subordinate balancing the federal budget in favor of strengthening the military, possibly putting him on a path to clashing with his own pick for budget director.
"Our military is more important to me than a balanced budget," the president declared in an interview with commentator Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel ...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/president-trump-says-military-more-important-balanced-budget-n712836
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Mikhail Gorbachev
Jan 26, 2017
... no problem is more urgent today than the militarization of politics and the new arms race. Stopping and reversing this ruinous race must be our top priority.
The current situation is too dangerous.
More troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers are being brought to Europe. NATO and Russian forces and weapons that used to be deployed at a distance are now placed closer to each other, as if to shoot point-blank.
While state budgets are struggling to fund peoples essential social needs, military spending is growing. Money is easily found for sophisticated weapons whose destructive power is comparable to that of the weapons of mass destruction; for submarines whose single salvo is capable of devastating half a continent; for missile defense systems that undermine strategic stability ...
http://time.com/4645442/gorbachev-putin-trump/
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)The military industrial complex is far more important than providing quality affordable healthcare to the citizens.
randr
(12,412 posts)underpants
(182,829 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Oh, here comes a democratic party president or congress, budgets and the deficit will suddenly matter.