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I just knew somebody would try to defend this by dragging in Clinton. I was never a Clinton fan, but in fact, most of the cuts that Clinton was blamed for were initiated by Dick Cheney when he was Secretary of Defense under George Bush I (in 1990 Cheney proposed a 25% reduction in the military, removing 442,000 men and women from the rolls over five years).
Please though, let's not go there in this thread. It isn't about the size of the budgets anyway, it's about how the money is spent and who profits from it. Military personnel, like other working people, are being asked to pay for wealthy CEOs' tax cuts.
The Disabled American Veterans page I posted above has links to send an email or letter, if you want do something that will actually help the people in uniform.
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