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Winning the Defense Spending Debate

tbrennan Wrote: Nov 17, 2012 4:34 PM

Eisenhower was one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century and then some. He knew that out of control military spending could bankrupt a country. We need to cut it 50 billion a year as the Bowles/Simpson act requested. Since we spend more than all of the other democracies combined, it seems like the thing to do. A military industrial complex is a bad thing. Have to like Ike to keep thinking like this. He knew cut spending and increase revenue is only intelligent way to deal with debt.

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Winning the Defense Spending Debate

With no time to recover from a thorough election day whooping, Republicans in a lame duck Congress are facing an even worse budgetary nightmare than last year. And they only have two months to negotiate a solution with President Obama.

Last time, as the Chair the Balanced Budget Amendment campaign, fellow conservatives and I were urging Republicans to tie the unavoidable increase in the debt ceiling to a balanced budget amendment. Because it also prohibited tax increases, the amendment would have required balance to be achieved through necessary cuts throughout the federal government.

But in...

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