Scoffing at the suggestion that “everything is on the table’’ in budget negotiations between the Obama administration and congressional leaders, Frank said, “The military budget is not on the table. The military is at the table, and it is eating everybody else’s lunch.’’
Frank also commented a few days ago that after Obama announced troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Congress didn't bother to take back the billions originally appropriated for those troops as well.
When it comes to war and defence, there is one one hell of a scary bipartisanship.
We are at war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya Yemen, Pakistan. In the first two, we have "boots on the ground." In Yemen and Pakistan, we use drones. And Libya, of course, is not war but "kinetic military action."
Meanwhile, scary employment and economy scenarios back here at home.
These are the kind of situations when I wonder why I even bother to read the news anymore :(
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