Tea Party: Defense Spending Not Exempt From Cuts -- CBS NewsTea Partiers Clamoring for Federal Government to Slash Spending Say Nothing Should Be Off Limits - Including Pentagon
(AP) Back home, supporters of the conservative tea party movement clamoring for the debt-ridden federal government to slash spending say nothing should be off limits. Tea party-backed lawmakers echo that argument, and they are not exempting the military's multibillion-dollar budget in a time of war.
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Update: Tea partiers say defense in mix for budget cuts -- Yahoo News/AP
My Comment: The U.S. budget deficit is not sustainable .... it is obvious that cuts will need to be made in defense, entitlements, and the bureaucracy as a whole. Will this be done in fiscal 2011-2012 .... that is something that I have to see.
