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Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.
unhappycamper summary of this article: The title to this thread is from Oblat's first post in the DoD Bozz discussion thread.
Tea Partier: DoD Cuts On TableBy Colin Clark Monday, November 8th, 2010 11:31 am
Posted in Policy
This is the latest evidence that the Tea Party broadly favors cutting defense — and other federal spending — dollars as it brings its fear of the ballooning federal deficit to town. “Republicans traditionally say, oh, we’ll cut domestic spending, but we won’t touch the military. The liberals — the ones who are good — will say, oh, we’ll cut the military, but we won’t cut domestic spending,” Senator-elect Rand Paul of Kentucky told ABC TV’s “This Week” talk show on Sunday. “Bottom line is, you have to look at everything across the board.”