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ellisonz

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7. Dean is an actual budget hawk.

Reply to octoberlib (Reply #5)

Wed Feb 20, 2013, 01:43 AM

Feb 2013

We've got to get out of this kick the can move and go big. The real problem I've had with Simpsons-Bowles is that what it looks to do to entitlements is what we should be doing to the Pentagon! - Every branch of the military is getting new major weapon systems in the next decade but we're going to cut the WIC program.

Fucking war machine.

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Howard Dean On Sequester: 'Let It Happen' [View all] octoberlib Feb 2013 OP

k&r for Howard Dean. n/t Laelth Feb 2013 #1

Indiscriminate military spending hardly stimulates the economy Kolesar Feb 2013 #2

I have intimate knowledge of work at the DoD. Drahthaardogs Feb 2013 #4

The Defense Budget has doubled since 9/11. ellisonz Feb 2013 #6

Unfortunately, there is more to sequestration than military cuts. mucifer Feb 2013 #3

I certainly wouldn't want anyone to lose their job. Dean thinks if we don't pay now, we'll pay later octoberlib Feb 2013 #5

Dean is an actual budget hawk. ellisonz Feb 2013 #7