Barney Frank, Ron Paul and 55 others advocate for defense cuts

[JackieDan]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/10/barney_frank_ron_paul_and_55_o.html

The Department of Defense currently takes up almost 56% of all discretionary federal spending, and accounts for nearly 65% of the increase in annual discretionary spending levels since 2001.

 

[surf]

from the comments:

That would be the Frank-PAUL letter. In fact, Ron Paul is the ONLY Republican out of the 55.

I guess people like Paul Ryan don't mind trillions of dollars in debt if it means we can continue to project imperial influence all over the world!

where is his R buddy from North Carolina on this one?

 

[carlangaslangas]

And that's what makes Ron Paul different from the rest !
He is the only one with the guts to always vote on principle and not on party.

Defense is out of control. At least organizations like wikileaks are able to shed some light on what really goes on, since the MSM is pathetically useless.

 

[ILUVRP]

I spent 13 yrs in the service , i strongly agree about closing about 90% of the overseas bases , get ALL people out of the middle east , thats a start.

Inspect every container ship that comes into America for bio-nuke with thousands of gi's. Our next big attack will come in a container. At the present time Russia is missing more than 90 suit case nukes.

Make all defense contracts a fixed fee job. Working in the defense industry for more than 25 yrs i found that the big corps loved cost plus contracts, then they could make huge profits out of mistakes.