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Originally Posted by randolph
I apologize. The post I read was wrong and I should have checked it out. 
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Actually, I should have pointed out that the plus fifty percent applied to
discretionary spending not the total budget.
The point is that the military spending is
discretionary so if we seriously want to get out of this budget hole, we need to cut military spending. Our Congress is not willing to do that. Are they hostages to the military industrial complex? Eisenhower would be shocked and appalled.