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SpartanDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 08:51 PM Original message |
Defense budget facing $850 billion cut in deal |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. It will never happen. |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I will be very surprised if it does n/t |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
2. I was wondering if a tax cut to medicare providers might off set the |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
3. $350 billion over 10 years? Crocodile tears. |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. your vote +1 eom |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
5. Oh how horrible we've been sold out again.. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
6. Military spending has to go to $1000-a-gallon gas. nt |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
7. It will be taken up by the draw downs in Iraq and Afghanistan... |
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sammytko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I think so also - makes it easier to vote - yes n/t |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
9. Congress sure won't do that! Instead they'll make those cuts in non-military spending programs. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
11. 2nd paragraph of that link |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:43 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. And not just that |
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Imajika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 10:00 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Precisely... |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
13. "unless lawmakers pass legislation stipulating spending reductions elsewhere" |
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Modern_Matthew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
14. I hope we hit the trigger for this very reason. I'd be ecstatic to lose that much in defense. nt |
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