
http://www.thirdway.com/WV/?Page=7781|Too+Much+of+the+Pie
Rachelle Lyndaker Schlabach writes about military spending in the discretionary budget for the latest Third Way Cafe.
When President Obama released his budget for Fiscal Year 2014 a few weeks ago, he requested $527 billion for the Pentagon and another $88 billion in war spending.
While a slight decrease from last year’s request, the request ignores the automatic cuts that kicked in this spring, coming in at $50 billion more than allowed by budget caps.
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