Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Slice A Trillion From Defense: Bring Greater Security?


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It’s easy to be all for cutting “waste” in the Pentagon budget but that enables continuing plans to spend 7.5 trillion over ten years. And on what? Could shoveling money to the military make us less secure? On this show William Hartung,  director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy examines a new Congressional Budget Office plan to cut one trillion over ten years. Today every dollar spent by weapons lobbyists brings them nearly 2 thousand back. Hartung explains how making this moderate cut would actually create more jobs. You can help congress to see that.
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