All Posts Tagged With: "defense spending"
Can America Afford an Empire?
Fiscally speaking, the U.S. government has been running a disorderly house for some time. That makes the fiscal crisis in Greece an uneasy portent for Americans (as Steven Horwitz points out in our July/August issue). Just contemplate some of the numbers. The total federal debt is nearly $13 trillion, $8.6 trillion of which is held [...]
22Sep2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedSenate Blocks GOP Filibuster
“The Senate early Friday headed off a Republican filibuster on the final spending bill of the year, clearing the way both for the bill’s passage and for the final end-game on a health care bill. Republicans had tried to drag out the debate on the $636.3 billion 2010 defense spending bill as a way of [...]
18Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedLegal Plunder Mislabeled “Defense”
Arnaud de Borchgrave of United Press International has been reporting on national intelligence matters for many years. In a recent dispatch he wrote that “[s]ome 15,300 earmarks in the U.S. defense budget, up 1,300 percent in the 21st century, are so many pork projects for lawmakers’ constituencies that have nothing to do with defense.” That [...]
1May2006 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedNever Enough?
President Bush’s proposed $48 billion military spending increase for next year exceeds what any other nation devotes to the military. In five years the Bush administration would have the government spend $100 billion more annually than was proposed by the Clinton administration. But for some people, no amount will ever be enough. “Neither the administration [...]
1Sep2002 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued-
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