Britain's pragmatic consensus on
cutting military spending reflects the weakening of Britain's national spirit, a defence campaigner has claimed.
As for
cutting military spending, apparently the good reverend missed the news flash, WE ARE AT WAR.
Russia
cut its military spending in 2017, a Kremlin spokesman acknowledged, just as the United States and its European allies have imposed steep sanctions on the former Cold War rival's economy.
So, to suggest that
we cut military spending while our young men and women are in harms way is something to be ashamed of!
Having said, you better not
cut that military spending too much because other nations seem to have a problem with our blessing.
He would also
cut the military spending as war in his eyes was never good.
Cut military spending and give me my CHEESE!
Though the United States hopes to
cut military spending by becoming more efficient, the military still wants to accomplish its goals.
Not exact matches
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The president's
spending blueprint
cuts $ 54 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department, and NASA, among others, to pay for a massive
military buildup.
While the budget proposes large
spending cuts to many government agencies — the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department budgets would be
cut 31 % and 28 %, respectively — defense and
military spending would increase substantially.
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.
President Donald Trump has said he plans to pay for billions of dollars more for the
military by
cutting spending on domestic agencies and departments.
Mutually unpleasant
cuts to
military and social
spending were a key feature of the 1985 Gramm - Rudman - Hollings budget deal during the Reagan years, although the success of these measures remains controversial.
This is in large part due to the huge tax
cuts and recent Republican commitments to boost
military and domestic
spending.
Harper's economic strategy, if it can be called that, is looking more and more like George Bush's: tax
cuts and
military spending.
Further, eliminating waste, fraud and abuse is much better than
cutting military and defense
spending.
President Donald Trump unveiled a $ 4.4 trillion budget plan Monday that envisions steep
cuts to America's social safety net but mounting
spending on the
military, formally retreating from last year's promises to balance the federal budget.
«I have absolutely no clue why this information is being withheld, and I'm astounded that it is,» said Perry, an expert on defence
spending who has written several detailed analyses of the effects of Conservative government's
spending cuts on the
military.
To give themselves an incentive, they passed drastic domestic and
military spending cuts that would take effect on January 1, 2013, if they couldn't reach on a more sensible program.
Paul's budget
cuts spending for basic (not relating to current
military operations)
military spending by 50 billion dollars and
cuts a further 20 billion for
military modernization.
This particular blowhardism is a combination of positions on entitlement
spending, taxation,
military engagement, and purely rhetorical
spending cutting radicalism that can't withstand contact with the realities of either the federal budget or public opinion.
«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.
Wzrd1 — we could
cut the
military budget in half and still rival the
spending of Russia, China, Germany, UK, and France combined.
He would
cut spending on the poor, increase
military spending, and wage holy war.Jesus was no liberal, class warfare, hippie wuzz.
The sequestration will make massive
spending cuts mandatory across most government agencies (including the
military) to the tune of $ 85 billion.
Funny, how do you think Mitt will
cut the defecit as he stated he will
cut taxes by 5 trillion dollars and increase
military spending by 2 trillion over 4 years?
There is some truth in this argument, although it remains a mystery why it is better to
cut social benefits rather than
military spending at a time when the United States
spend more money on defense than the next 10
military powers — such as China, Russia, France, England, Germany and Japan — combined.
OK, so deficit
spending hurts the economy — unless it's
spending on the
military (or on the medical - industrial complex), in which case
cutting spending destroys jobs.
As the Trump administration threatened hefty budget
cuts for the U.S. Coast Guard, the
military service was
spending more than $ 6.6 million protecting the president's waterfront Mar - a-Lago Club during his seven weekend trips there this spring, documents show.
U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, an Amsterdam Democrat who also spoke Saturday, said he worries that domestic discretionary
spending will have to be
cut drastically as Trump pushes for the $ 22 billion Mexican wall and for an additional $ 54 billion in
military spending.
The defence experts did however agree that the SDSR was a good balance between the need for
spending cuts and preserving the UK
military, suggesting that many had feared far greater
cuts to the budget than the 7.5 % which emerged.
President Trump unveiled a new $ 4.4 trillion budget proposal Monday that boosts
spending for the
military, homeland security and infrastructure while imposing
cuts to social - welfare programs.
President Obama's former defense secretary, Leon Panetta — a defense -
cutting budget hawk when he served in Congress — has called sequestration's defense -
spending caps «catastrophic,» «a disaster,» and a «a goofy meat - ax approach» that will «hollow out» the
military.
@DA All sarcasm aside, democrats do frequently go for
military spending cuts, which is resisting national defence.
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.
Trump's first budget for the federal government is a blueprint that would make deep
cuts in the Environmental Protection Agency and other domestic programs while significantly increasing
spending on the
military.
The strategic defence and security review was published five months prior to the
military operation in Libya, and set out an eight per cent
cut to defence
spending over the next four years.
(CNN)- Sen. Patty Murray, co-crafter of the bipartisan budget agreement and member of the veterans affair committee, said Wednesday
cuts to pension benefits for some
military veterans under the
spending plan was a part of a compromise to avoid billions in
cuts to the defense industry.
Britain maintains a permanent garrison of 2,500 service personnel on the Falkland Islands, but there are fears
spending cuts at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) could erode the UK
military's ability to defend the island from attack.
French leader Emmanuel Macron faced the biggest crisis of his young presidency on Wednesday following the resignation of the
military chief he had rebuked for criticising defence
spending cuts.
CNN: Obama calls for short - term fix to imminent
spending cuts President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for a short - term agreement to put off deep
cuts to government
spending, including the
military, set to take effect next month.
If Congress
spends more than the limits, it automatically triggers across - the - board
spending cuts under the federal sequester process and deeper
cuts to the
military.
Many U.S. science agencies would have to make do with less under the president's 2006 budget request, which aims to
cut the deficit, boost
military and antiterrorism
spending, and make tax
cuts permanent President George W. Bush has proposed a flat budget for U.S. science next year.
They also contribute to the $ 54 billion
cut that Trump needs to offset his proposed rise in
military spending, to $ 603 billion, in the 2018 fiscal year that begins 1 October.
Trump himself leaked the big news last month: He will ask for $ 54 billion more for the
military, and pay for it with $ 54 billion in
cuts to domestic discretionary
spending.
When a congressional committee failed in its remit to do just that last November, the clock began ticking towards an automatic
cut that will claw the required amount from across the federal government, including all
military and non-
military spending that is not required by law.
The surgeon had been honorably discharged five years before, after deep
cuts in
military spending.
In recent years, Obama administration budget planners had largely shielded 6.1
spending from
cuts despite a downsizing
military.
The budget calls for $ 3.6 trillion in
spending cuts over the next decade, leaves Medicare and Social Security untouched, and modestly boosts
military spending.