Analyst: 2018 US Defense(ie. War) Budget Actually Over $1 Trillion
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- Analyst: 2018 US Defense Budget Actually Over $1 Trillion
by https://sputniknews.com/
The US Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which features a record high defense budget of $700 billion for fiscal year 2018.
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Brian Becker and John Kiriakou of Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear were joined by Greg Mello, executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group, a nuclear disarmament advocacy organization, and by Jim Kavanagh, progressive journalist and editor of ThePolemicist.net.
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“The big takeaway is that again we have an increase that’s beyond even what Trump asked for,” said Kavanagh. “Spending for the military is essentially unlimited, and it demonstrates that Trump, despite what anybody thought, despite whatever he said, is part of the military-industrial complex. He said he was going to cut back on the wars — but he wants to increase military spending? This is going to create more and more tension, and everybody’s behind it.”
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“It demonstrates the tenacity of the military-industrial complex in the United States: these bills are structured in a way that give contracts throughout the country and almost every congressional district hundreds of bases. Thousands of contracts are issued every day and it becomes very difficult for any congressperson to vote against it, because they are voting against pork that’s coming into their district. Essentially this is military Keynesianism.”
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