The Dwight Eisenhower lesson America forgot

The Dwight Eisenhower lesson America forgot

"Five-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower took pains in his farewell address in 1961 to remind us of it again. How did we as a people come to forget it? WTF, America?"

Sen. Sanders to bring back veterans bill GOP previously blocked

Defense Contractors Profit Despite Sequestration And Shutdown

Defense Contractors Profit Despite Sequestration And Shutdown: Shutdown? No problem. Sequestration? No sweat. Defense contracts continue to show huge profits.

Defense Department Likely To Fire Thousands If Sequestration Continues In 2014

Defense Department Likely To Fire Thousands If Sequestration Continues In 2014: Sequestration may push the DoD to fire workers instead of just furloughing them.

How Contractors Raked in $385 Billion to Build and Support Bases Abroad Since 2001

How Contractors Raked in $385 Billion to Build and Support Bases Abroad Since 2001
"Outside the United States, the Pentagon controls a collection of military bases unprecedented in history. With U.S. troops gone from Iraq and the withdrawal from Afghanistan underway, it’s easy to forget that we probably still have about 1,000 military bases in other peoples' lands. This giant collection of bases receives remarkably little media attention, costs a fortune, and even when cost cutting is the subject du jour, it still seems to get a free ride."

PERRspectives: GOP Pushes for More Tanks Pentagon Doesn't Want

PERRspectives: GOP Pushes for More Tanks Pentagon Doesn't Want
"Ohio Senator Rob Portman and Rep. Jim Jordan want more money to build additional Abrams M1 battle tanks the Pentagon says it doesn't want."

Two Critics Of Government Spending Are Forcing The Army To Build Tanks It Doesn’t Want

Two Critics Of Government Spending Are Forcing The Army To Build Tanks It Doesn’t Want: Congress is forcing the Army to spend nearly half a billion dollars building tanks that Army officials insist they don’t want, with money they say could be better spent elsewhere, according to a new report from the AP. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) are the two members of congress at the [...]/p

New 'Costs of War' Report: Hundreds of Thousands Dead, Trillions Spent | Common Dreams

New 'Costs of War' Report: Hundreds of Thousands Dead, Trillions Spent | Common Dreams
"As the ten year anniversary of the US invasion approaches, updated research shows that both the human and financial costs of the preemptive and prolonged military adventure in Iraq are higher than the most Americans even now realize and astronomically higher than its proponents assured the public as they made their case for war a decade ago."

Defense Spending Myths: Cutting Through the Noise

Defense Spending Myths: Cutting Through the Noise: In deciding on how best to deal with our deficit crisis, the prospect of cutting the defense budget has been a point of heated debate. As the federal government grapples with the effects of sequestration, the House passed a bill this week that will cushion the effects of the cuts for the Pentagon while leaving [...]/p

U.S. Wasted $10 Billion Rebuilding Iraq

U.S. Wasted $10 Billion Rebuilding Iraq: As the 10th anniversary of President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq approaches, the body charged with overseeing Iraq’s reconstruction has issued its final report, capping a tale of spending far too much money for very little results. Appointed in Oct. 2004, over a year into War in Iraq, the Special Inspector-General for Iraq Reconstruction [...]/p

The F-35 Folly: How Our Own Fighter Jets Are Killing Us

The F-35 Folly: How Our Own Fighter Jets Are Killing Us
"When you combine the price tag of the program with Government Accountability Office estimated operating and maintenance costs of the planes– the total cost of the program reaches over $1 trillion."

PERRspectives: Let's Make a Sequester Deal!

PERRspectives: Let's Make a Sequester Deal!
"Republicans protesting that tax increases on supposed "job creators" will hurt economic growth and employment need not fear. The historical record shows that the U.S. economy grew much faster and produced jobs in far greater numbers when taxes were higher--even much higher. In December, the Congressional Budget Office concluded that ending the Bush tax cuts for the rich would have virtually no impact on the U.S. economy at all. And as theCongressional Research Service explained in a report Republicans tried to squelch:

The evidence does not suggest necessarily a relationship between tax policy with regard to the top tax rates and the size of the economic pie, but there may be a relationship to how the economic pie is sliced.

As George W. Bush famously said, "We ought to make the pie higher." Unfortunately, right now the top one percent is eating it all."

ABC News Calls Out Paul Ryan For Hypocrisy Over Looming Budget Cuts

ABC News Calls Out Paul Ryan For Hypocrisy Over Looming Budget Cuts: ABC News’ Jonathan Karl confronted Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) over his past support for the sequester, just as the one-time GOP vice presidential candidate sought to blame President Obama for the automatic across-the-board cuts scheduled to go into effect on March 1. During an appearance on This Week, Ryan argued that President Obama “proposed the [...]/p

GOP Eager For The Sequester To Go Into Effect So They Can Blame Obama For Its Devastating Consequences

GOP Eager For The Sequester To Go Into Effect So They Can Blame Obama For Its Devastating Consequences: With the sequester deadline looming just two weeks away, Republicans have adopted the public posture of cheerleading for the anticipated spending reductions to social programs, while preparing to blame President Obama for their devastating impact on middle class Americans and national security. Republicans have yet to offer a proposal that would offset the cuts in [...]/p