There's also more to the plan. If you remember that Republican President Dwight Eisenhower warned us specifically about the military (Congressional) industrial complex’s effect on the rest of our economy, and how it would drain money away from everything else. Guess who’s completely ignoring that declaration? That very same Republican Party.
In another scary turn for the worse, Republicans are more concerned with funding the military than the programs that support the people and infrastructure of this country. And not one tea party or independent voter seems to care.
NYTimes: Pessimism mounted this week over the ability of a bipartisan Congressional committee to agree on a deficit-reduction plan … lawmakers began taking steps to head off the large cuts in Pentagon spending that would automatically result from the panel’s failure … Several Republicans on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees are readying legislation that would undo the automatic across-the-board cuts totaling nearly $500 billion for military programs, or exchange them for cuts in other areas of the federal budget.
Many safety-net programs for low-income people, like Medicaid and food stamps, would be exempt from automatic cuts. And Medicare payments to health care providers could not be reduced by more than 2 percent. At a recent meeting of the deficit reduction panel, Representative Dave Camp, Republican of Michigan, sought assurances that nothing would prevent Congress from changing the mechanism for automatic cuts in military spending. Republicans said Democrats should not count on that. “If Democratic members of the committee think that Republicans just cannot resist calls or demands for a big tax increase because of the sense of unacceptable cuts, I think they would be wrong in that,” said Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama.
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