http://www.thenation.com/blog/163772/barney-frank-cut-military-budget-nowAssuming that it does its job, the super-committee on deficit reduction will issue recommendations within the next seven weeks about how to reduce the federal budget by $1.5 trillion over the next decade.
At the Take Back the American Dream conference Tuesday morning, Representative Barney Frank called for progressives to pressure the super-committee to take nearly all of that money from military budgets. “The focus has got to be in the super-committee $200 billion per year” in reductions, Frank said. That, of course, would be $2 trillion—more than the super-committee’s mandate for deficit reduction.
That would be a tough sell to Republican members like Senator Jon Kyl, who has already threatened to just quit the super-committee if it pushes deep military budget cuts. Kyl frequently cites jobs at military bases and industries that supply the military, instead of national security concerns, to advocate for protected defense spending—but Frank blasted the “military Keynesianism” of Republicans who are oppose stimulus in virtually all other forms but defense.
“There is no way at all to do a socially responsible deficit reduction plan, no way to do long-term deficit reduction, no without very substantial reductions in military spending,” he said.
***:shrug: we will see.
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