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Dick Cheney Broke U.S. Military, Now Blames Obama for Cuts

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Post by confuzzled dude Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:20 pm

"Former Vice President Dick Cheney has lambasted the Obama administration for its announcement that it will cut 8% out of the military budget and reduce standing army troop levels to the lowest level since before World War II (from 550,000 at the height of the Iraq War to 440,000).  Cheney told CNN he believed that Obama would rather spend the money on food stamps than on the military.
Cheney himself, however, is one of the reasons for these cuts.


According to former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, Cheney is the one who insisted on two big tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans in the first years of the Bush administration, which has been a structural contributor to persistent budget deficits. America has become an extremely unequal society, with the top 1% taking home 20% of the national income every month, and obviously if they pay dramatically less in Federal taxes, it causes a shortfall that cannot be made up from the 99%. Those deficits provoked the ‘sequester,’ automatic across the board cuts in the government budget, which are among the impetuses for Hagel’s budget. "


http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/dick_cheney_broke_us_military_now_blames_obama_for_cuts_20140227

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