Militarybudgetcutsnow.org Blog

http://www.rollcall.com/news/35354-1.html
The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call graciously accepted a recent essay that I wrote on the hypocrisy of Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans who pretend to care about deficit spending, but never even cast a glance at the oversized military budget.
So even though our military budget almost doubled during the Bush/Cheney years, the first place that our so-called deficit hawks look to cut back on spending is Social Security & Medicare, rather than say, the F35 Joint Strike Fighter, which may cost one trillion dollars by the time all the planned (but not yet functioning) fighter planes are built.
We spend as much as the rest of the world--and most of the other top military spenders are our allies in Europe--but the deficit hawks can't see the Pentagon when they're looking for cuts...