Michele Kearney's Snuffysmith's Blog

Funding the US Department of Offense

http://www.creators.com/opinion/veronique-de-rugy/funding-the-us-department-of-offense.html
If you want to know how serious Republican presidential candidates are about fiscal responsibility, just look at their positions on the spending caps put into place by the Budget Control Act of 2011.
The caps, which largely cover domestic discretionary programs and the defense budget, brought a modicum of restraint to the federal spending train that careened out of control under the Bush and Obama administrations. But for the special interests that live off the largesse — particularly weapons manufacturers and lobbies for foreign governments that don't mind U.S. taxpayers footing the bill for their defense needs — restraint on the Pentagon's war chest is unacceptable.
Though the caps aren't perfectly constructed, the goal should be expanding them to cover all budget areas. Instead, GOP presidential aspirants are tripping over one another to declare support for turning the military-spending spigot on full blast while also making promises to control the federal government's bloated finances. This incoherent position demonstrates that the GOP field isn't serious about constraining the size and scope of the federal government.http://www.creators.com/opinion/veronique-de-rugy/funding-the-us-department-of-offense.html