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TARPing War

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: 'American taxpayers are shelling out at least $1.2 trillion a year for the vast military, intelligence, and homeland security combine that operates in their name ... When a country spends 'more on defense than the next 17 top-spending countries combined' and can t win a war, you should know that something s wrong, and that 'too big' and 'fail' do stand in some relation to each other ... You, the taxpayer, bailed out a host of tottering financial firms ... The only bright spot: those were one-time, two-time, or three-time deals. The [military industrial] Complex is forever (at least as its managers see it).'

http://www.truth-out.org/national-security-complex-too-big-fail-tarping-war/1319132224

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Defending Bloated Military Spending

By Ryan Alexander

The $450 billion in Pentagon cuts that the debt ceiling deal enacted - isn t actually a 'cut' at all.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29512.htm



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