Though it was assumed that the Super Committee would have to look at the record military budgets if it was to do anything meaningful about the deficit, the very notion that it might be considered was itself such an outrage to one Senator that he threatened to quit if it is ever brought up again.
In a luncheon meeting meeting sponsored by hawkish think tanks, Sen. Jon Kyl (R – AZ) angrily declared that he was “off of the committee if we’re going to talk about further defense spending.” So far the only “cut” made to military spending was a largely illusory $350 billion pledge to cut the rate of future growth several years down the road.
This should please the various arms makers who are meeting with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, as Panetta seeks to reassure them that he is firmly against the cuts, which he termed a “doomsday mechanism.”
The US military’s budget, as it stands, is the largest in the history of mankind. That each year going forward will be an even bigger budget is taken as a matter of course by the committee, and Sen. Kyl’s anger stems primarily from concerns that those future record budgets won’t be big enough increases over the previous year.
I'm sure his views were well known before the appointment. It's called stacking the deck.
Let Kyl go, God bless him.maybe he will join the military and fight for freedom or something.
Bye Jon, . . Oh, don't bother to write– we know you'll be busy working for your defense sector buds.
F Jon bit– this supper commity is not constitutional.Come on americans stand for you laws that give power to you not the corrupt government.Its going to get worse and worse stand strong now all Americans.
who the f***k is this clown? and where did he come frm?
This is as illegal as it getsand goes against the constitution.Its time every warmonger zionist gets kicked out of the country and the power is given were it belongs to the people not to the sellouts in government.Ron Paul is the last hope before things get violent and you can be sure the government or police fire first.The Police and the military need to realize that is not black and white no more its rich and poor and what place do you think you and your children will fall into once you are no longer usefull to them.WAKE UP EVERYONE.Antiwar needs a MSM funding that reaches everone.A huge majority of people get there information from the lieing MSM and think what they say is good as gold when nothing could be further from the truth.