- Pentagon has seen $37B in cuts: "American defense planners therefore need to accept the obvious: budget cuts are here to stay." http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140158/cindy-williams/accepting-austerity 50 comments politics
- Biden’s FY25 Budget Cuts Missile Defense When We Need It More Than Ever https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/bidens-fy25-budget-cuts-missile-defense-when-we-need-it-more-ever 30 comments politics
- Rumsfeld - "Cut entitlements, not defense budget" He needs to crawl back into the hole he's been hiding in for six years. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/10/rumsfeld-defense-tea-progressive/ 26 comments politics
- Today I overheard someone saying that NASA's budget needs to be cut and the resulting funds go towards national defense. Never before have I had such the urge to kill someone in the face. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/382293671_f84baeaee4_o.jpg 143 comments politics
- Romney's plan to peg military spending to 4% of GDP is not based on what the Pentagon says we need, and will result in draconian cuts to the rest of the federal budget if there are no tax increases. It’s simply "Let’s throw a figure against the wall and look tough on defense." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/us/politics/romney-plan-for-more-military-ships-is-called-unrealistic.html?pagewanted=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121021 14 comments politics
- Howard Dean on the $1 trillion sequester: "We should let it happen. I’m in favor of the sequester. It is tough on things that I care about a lot, but the fact of the matter is, you are not going to get another chance to cut the defense budget in the way that it needs to be cut." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/howard-dean-sequester-_n_2695721.html 9 comments politics