Sentences with phrase «military spending kept»

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As it happened, we kept the tax cuts, added new military and Medicare spending, and did nothing to raise new revenue or cut other spending.

The federal government has promised to keep 68,000 full - time military members and 27,000 reservists in uniform, despite declines in defence spending and the closure of 12 military recruiting centres across the country in 2013.

Santorum wants to increase military spending, has said that we should keep our troops in Iraq (forever, I guess) and openly talks about bombing Iran.

«Congress to decide how much to spend... We can not keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!»

By the time of the Maccabees, for example, the practice of keeping the Sabbath was so central to Judaism that, according to Josephus, the Romans had to exempt the Jews from military service because they were useless as soldiers on the Sabbath.12 Seneca could not understand the Sabbath exercise and chided the Jews for spending every seventh day of their lives in idleness.13

@ «ROBM it could be easily argued that China and other countries military spending has increased only to keep America in check.

Obviously we don't need full scale wars to get the target... but if paying for a tank you can't afford is what you want then lets keep buying tanks... Bush was able to double our debt in his 8 years primarily due to crazy military spending, and Obama isn't doing very well either.

There has been a lot of infrastructure built around US military spending, and there is a lot of vested interest in maintaining this infrastructure as a contraction in military spending sends out ripples to these industries, so this creates significant political pressure to keep the whole system afloat.

In addition, one must take into account the large economic footprint of the private defense industry from companies like Lockheed Martin and Boeing who are dependent on the military for contracts to keep them going, as well as the kind of industries that one doesn't think of when they think of military spending and dependence on the military like food service contracts or transportation spending.

So the U.S. kept up military spending to scare off a Soviet Attack... and the Soviet Union tried to keep up with us.

I think it's a tad more complex than that — the least of which plenty of Americans want the military to keep spending money in their state to keep their economy moving.

The United States has a long history of maintaining a strong military, and economic infrastructure has been built up around this large military such that there are diverse parties with vested interest in keeping the level of military of spending high.

We are skint and can no longer keep spending the sums needed to maintain our military strength.

Regretting that while the nation was spending its meager resources to ensure that the morale of security agents was raised, Buhari said it is unfortunate that those saddled with the responsibility of acquiring equipment weapons for the military betrayed the trust adding that his government will not keep quiet about the revelations.

There's a military that needs funding and constant management to make sure it doesn't accidentally wage war on the neighbors; religion to deal with and all of the many problems that stem from it; a population to keep fed, clothed, warm and happy; and a treasury that constantly seems to be on the brink of containing no money whatsoever because you spent it all on that big gold statue.

When evaluating how much we spend on our military defense or keeping nasty, awful, unconscionable murderers and child molesters alive in jail... then it seems ludicrous we or any other wealthy country can't assist the poorer countries to develop better sanitation systems and practices.