Speaking today on ABC’s “This Week,” Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned against allowing any military related spending cuts next say, saying that any cuts would be “disastrous to national security.”
“They have a responsibility to come together and find the money,” Panetta added, calling for Congress to accept the military’s existing budgets as-is for a “strong national defense.”
Panetta has repeatedly insisted that the theoretical cuts, which are mostly back-loaded at any rate, would be a calamity. Today he added that the Pentagon, which has the largest military budget of any military in the history of humanity, has been “diligent” in keeping the costs down.
House Republicans have been pushing to exempt the Pentagon from the “automatic” cuts that might be imposed in an attempt to balance the budget. The Senate has so far resisted the effort.
Voting majority wants excessive military — To protect their excessive wealth
For not only do our 51% most wealthy hoard all the wealth in America, since they nuked Japan and so terrorized the world, they have been able to plunder a forth of all the wealth on mother earth.
For a poor farmer needs but one gun to protect his cattle from the wolves, but a rich man needs a thousand guns to protect his gold mine.