Pentagon Spending

Unauditable

Dina Rasor | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

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Dina Rasor

It seems like every group has their hand out claiming that they need more money in these bad economic times. As messy as these problems are, there is no bigger mess than the Department of Defense.

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Clinton and Obama Remain Pentagon-Huggers

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

We are misdeploying resources and frankly, overspending on the Pentagon by a vast degree. Neither Obama nor Clinton is saying this.

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Defense Spending Soars, While President Continues to Aim at Domestic Programs

Bob Greenstein | Posted 03.10.2008 | Business

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Bob Greenstein

There has been a spending explosion, but it's come in defense-related programs, which have grown 27 times faster than domestic discretionary programs over the past seven years.

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Pentagon Wants Record Budget For 2009

New York Times | Thom Shanker | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics

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As Congress and the public focus on more than $600 billion already approved in supplemental budgets to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and fo...

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Blueprint for a 21st Century Military

Gov. Bill Richardson | Posted 10.05.2007 | Politics

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Gov. Bill Richardson

We need to adjust our promotion and training requirements, as well as our budget priorities, to reflect the war-fighting challenges that face our military in this new century.

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