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through this quickly before mike answered well progressive should uh...
uh... take note of
uh... barney frank um...
that unit was one of the house buildings that head of the uh... house uh... budget committee
one of the leading budget expert certainly are outside
and out
uh... so barney frank uh... the democrat for messages
finally says it is
we for years have been afraid both sides as jack would say it cuz they purport to pay
for it
one side spot before more but you could argue i'd just point earlier about alleviate the
show that nothing ledoux has anything to do except for who gave the money
that is too cynical spot but nonetheless
defense spending has just been off limits but nobody ministrations freight dot left
um...
finally we have in movement words at least getting discussed because we cannot
cut this deficit
down significantly and get to work balancing the budget without looking at defense pat
uh... so barney frank uh... finally starts talking about these are funny about it specifically
not vaguely
so we've looked at a barney frank uh... had to say
uh... these uh... types of restrictions says barney frank on domestic spending with unlimited
spending for the war and you have to talk about both the says it's a great mistake
and the liberal community
has to focus more
on afghanistan on iraq
and nato
says barney frank
nato he says is a great train on our treasury
and made of
and and that train our treasury serves no strategic purpose
so he what happened and what the cold war is over
before nato after world war two as an effort to sort of have a block of countries to deter
uh... to stand against soviet aggression
we only need to worry about soviet aggression and we don't we need to rethink whether there's
an attack
on france from someone else
do we need to declare war on that country which is what
nato says like that's not really relevant and it is not really relevant
why we spending all this money right now
i agree with them
yeah of course and it's at least the conversation we have to go at a twenty percent uh...
according to lawrence korb it is a senior fellow at the center for american progress
and he deals with that
military readiness
twenty percent of the baseline defense budget is nato related about a hundred billion dollars
a year
that's real money
so hundred billion dollars a year ago soon eight oh
and there was an actual debate about six billion dollars for health insurance
for nine eleven first responders
like let's put that in perspective yet and by the way that's but that's just twenty percent
of the hundred billion dollars it's hard to pinpoint the exact number since many of the
assets the u_s_ provides nato we also use for other purposes but
uh... over all the defense budget fiscal year twenty tactic we have these numbers too
five hundred and thirty three point eight billion dollars five hundred and thirty four
billion dollars
for the defense budget fiscal year two thousand ten
and that of course because this is how we roll
we're not going to loot the war
awards and
just jump in there because that they were using to some of our defense money spent on
the work
with the worst six hundred and sixty-three
point eight billion dollars on defense but wow
more than the combined
so that's more money
how many other countries combining were number one
so the next seventy two through eighty
i don't give it away how mcuh three countries do bigger involved
say seventy
that's more money then those seventeen other countries spent couple
and there should be simpler
they seem able yes i've seen able to defend themselves
uh... the britain recently cut their defense spending eight percent
there's not even that much
eight percent reduction defense spending
uh... that cost about seventeen thousand personnel
time magazine pointed out
maybe we're not gonna have
what we have a hundred thousand troops maybe there are gonna be ten thousand british troops
there next time
we
but the barney frank talking about this is great
but is it conceivable that in anytime in near future anytime in the end
distant future we're gonna cut defense spending i think i think it
you think that's uh... and one of the reasons why is because there's some strange not strange
while strange yet by bipartisan effort forty got barney frank
uh... the most influential democrat uh... regarding a defense spending right now
and how we deal with the budget
in general that's really what is worst influences but what we have power and allocate funds
on the house side and then
all the republicans
uh... many of them in the tea party this is where there's some common ground between sanity
and the tea party
uh... tom coburn senator from oklahoma
plus a look at cutting defense spending johnnie isaacson a georgia bob corker tennessee
uh... and then congressman up all ryan oakes consummate our west that rap electing part
of the black tea party uh...
uh... representative-elect for about florida mike and so much talk about mark kirk the
uh... senator-elect from a illinois
of that other democrats as well
you know i guess a third rail is one of the third rail social security was and now i uh...
uh... defense spending that yeah and and again this is now begins
you start have a conversation about the guest to be some groundswell that you change the
nature of the debate about it
and then you force defense contractors look you're probably right they'll probably win
in the end
even if you slow the rate of growth that of defense spending it helps and then who knows
labs in twenty right might not happen in twenty years of a start talking about it now might
happen overnight near twenty third
it's just difficult to unmatched in them cutting defense spending when every single time a
partition brings it up there's always the question or are you know back using shin
but the politician is weak on national security that's why it's really important that the
republicans involved to and that's the benefit of the tea party vanity parties give a political
cover to a giant swath with their now boaters he can point to
they had cut everything and if your or rational and were tea party support you recognize hey
if we really care about reducing the size of government
six hundred sixty three billion dollars a year
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