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Military Spending
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Turning Tide? Lawmakers Look to Pentagon for Budget Cuts
With the national deficit looming over the country, Obama might look to make cuts to defense spending to balance the budget.
Romney-Ryan “Ploughshares to Swords” Budget Would Cost America at Least 530,000 Jobs
Their plans to cut domestic spending in order to increase military spending would cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs.
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Four Spending Myths That Could Wreck Our World: How Not to Solve an American Crisis
If lawmakers skipped the myth-making and began putting Americau2019s resources into a series of domestic investments that would spur the economy now, their acts would yield dividends for years …
Gar Alperovitz’s Green Party Keynote: We Are Laying Groundwork for the “Next Great Revolution”
I urge that you sit back and say, am I up to that or am I just doing politics, or am I really up to that. Now the that …
Kick the Habit: Fund Our Communities, Not War
Like a crack addict reaching for the next hit, unable to envision or take steps toward a regimen of health, too many of our political leaders are embracing their …
Cow Most Sacred: Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable
U.S. military outlays today equal that of every other nation on the planet combined.