Sentences with phrase «about military spending»

Think about military spending — would you be planning on launching a start - up in that sector?

Israeli government officials argue about military spending and military strength.

Totally have to agree with this comment about military spending especially on federal retirements for military and civil servants.

Biggest Idea: Shane Claiborne with «Give to Uncle Sam What is Uncle Sam's» «Imagine what would happen if a massive popular movement of ordinary Americans decided to voice their concern about military spending — by withholding $ 10.40 from their 1040 tax forms this year?

Not exact matches

He added that he «looked very seriously» at a veto, but his support for the military spending levels «overrode» his concerns about the bill.

The deal would raise spending caps by about $ 300 billion over two years and bump the limit on military spending by $ 80 billion in the current year and $ 85 billion in the next year.

Total military spending hit $ 818 billion last year, is projected to rise to about $ 875 billion this year, and is estimated to increase to $ 886 billion in 2019.

The NUCLEAR «stick» is the Big Deterrence and thousand of «mini drones» can be used to «secure and hold» an area while our people stay home and run the show for about 1 % of what we spend on a useless «Military Presence».

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.

In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 1989.

Philadelphia - based Christian author and activist Shane Claiborne partnered with Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, to raise public awareness about federal military spending.

«They're talking about cutting bed nets for malaria and leaving every piece of military spending untouched,» said the Rev. Jim Wallis, who leads the Christian group Sojourners, referring to Republican spending proposals for the rest of this year.

There was a little about the danger of Islamic Jihad, and so no criticism of military spending.

I seem to recall it was about $ 50 billion, which I think would be about a 10 % increase in overall US military spending.

Perhaps best known for advocating that the nation guard against the potential influence of the military — industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the speech also expressed concerns about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect of the domination of science through Federal funding and, conversely, the domination of science - based public policy by what he called a «scientific - technological elite».

GOP constant calls for tax cuts and less regulations and military expansion (we already spend more then the next 9 biggest spending nations) caused a gigantic deficit that the GOP now complains about.

Now that the MoD seems to have lost the battle with the Treasury over who will pay the # 20bn bill for replacing Trident, many in the military are asking serious questions about whether we actually need it or not - given that every pound spent on Trident, will be a pound not spent on the basic equipment that will be needed to fight the sort of smaller - scale global operations senior officers foresee as the likely role of the military in the next few decades.

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.

Brigadier Adesope further disclosed that the board spends N9.2 billion monthly for 92,000 military pensioners, adding that he did not know how the Federal government came about payment of pensions from Service Wide Votes instead of the budget.

Schumer, D - N.Y., the Senate Democratic leader, said the agreement reached after months of negotiations would lift statutory spending limits set by Congress and add about $ 400 billion in federal spending, providing billions to boost the military over the next two years.

Overall, military spending accounts for about one - half of discretionary spending.

How about we stop spending 20 Billion a year on private military contractors, instead of freezing the budget on a peaceful and productive agency like NASA.

I'm not sure what it is about the shade — perhaps it is the years I actually spent wearing camo and hunting with my dad, maybe it is the relatives who have served in the military, perhaps it's just a color I like.

About Blog I spent 22 years in the military and joined the Honolulu Police Department at the age of 49..

B - The Duelists Rated PG Available on Blu - ray In 1977, two years before he released Alien, Director Ridley Scott made his debut with this indie about two French military officers in the time of Napoleon (Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel) who spend decades dueling each other over practically nothing.

And here's a guy who's just played a military man in his next movie, and has come off an award season playing a sociopath in Nocturnal Animals, and has also played a superhero, and he spends most of his time talking about gardening, and cooking for his children, and doing the grocery shopping, and when discussing his marriage, here's how he describes what he gets out of it:

Former Marine - turned - actor Adam Driver spends his spare time raising awareness about post-traumatic stress disorder (Ptsd) in the military by taking...

The senator who lost to Obama in the 2008 presidential election has never suffered fools — or equivocating witnesses — gladly, and he would be certain to use his new perch for tough questioning about Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and military spending.

Amy is a military spouse and brat who spent many years volunteering and on staff for the Army National Guard, and who has a propensity for writing about alpha - male mobsters.

The US military is spending millions of dollars researching techniques that could allow pilots to control their planes by thinking about it, or allow soldiers to communicate directly to each other through thought.

Funny (sadly) article... I use TNR, since I spent 40 years in the military / technical arena, and never thought twice about it.

Today, I've teamed up with Navy Federal Credit Union to talk about credit cards, their uses, responsible spending, and how they can affect a military family.

B.H. Lidell Hart spent a lifetime writing about the history of military strategy and war.

A 2014 survey by the National Federation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) found that military families had 7 % more unsecured debt (about $ 400 - to - $ 500 on average); about $ 11,000 less in tangible assets and spent $ 200 a month more on debt - related expenses than their civilian counterparts.

About Blog I spent 22 years in the military and joined the Honolulu Police Department at the age of 49..

As we catch up on Day X, we explore the grounds of the military academy Lanseal — the place you'll be spending almost all of your time leveling up, researching new equipment, and learning more about your fellow cadets.

He has spent much of the last decade researching, documenting and writing about «dark spots on the map» — spaces concealed by state and military classification.

Youngerman and Kelly both spent about a decade studying in Paris after their U.S. military service, and were clearly already thinking about landscapes in the abstract.

Defense and Energy: The military also has the world's largest budget for basic research and development, to the tune of some $ 75 billion a year (we spend about $ 1 billion a year on all energy research, as I pointed out the other day).

Defense and energy: The military also has the world's largest budget for basic research and development, to the tune of some $ 75 billion a year (we spend about $ 1 billion a year on all energy research, as I pointed out the other day).

The good news is that those terms are being reframed before our eyes, as are the politics of health care, and military spending, and national security, and just about everything else on the public agenda.

It is about time the DOE finally did something about it, and we get ten years investment all for the cost of about one month military spending in Iraq.

The United States, which just spent nearly a trillion dollars bailing out its floundering financial corporations and spends about $ 700 billion annually on the military, offered an obscenely inadequate $ 1.2 billion in aid.

It was when I did a summer internship with the Army JAG, that I got to go to spend some time in their police training facility for military police, and that's where I learned about things like solicitation and conspiracy, and some of the more intricacies of assault, and then that inspired me to start digging deeper.

About Blog I spent 22 years in the military and joined the Honolulu Police Department at the age of 49..

Caplan encourages the public to think about the fact that the military spends weeks getting the service members ready for war — running them through boot camp exercises designed to create a new cultural reality that will help the service member survive in this harsh new environment.