>>Read it completely.
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>>"Norcross and Reps. Frank LoBiondo (R-2nd Dist.), Tom MacArthur (R-3rd Dist.) and Chris Smith (R-4th Dist.) urged Defense Secretary James Mattis in a letter earlier this month to include funding for the hangars in the forthcoming budget, which increases defense spending by $54 billion while cutting funding for Medicaid, children's health insurance and food stamps"
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>>PS - Norcross is a Democrat
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>>Here's the deal.
>>More than 42,000 people are employed at the Joint Base McGuire/Dix.
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>>That's more than any single employer in New Jersey.
>>That's just slightly less than half of the entire population of Hamilton, NJ.
>>Their congressional reps have one, and only one, mission... keep that base open and raise its funding.
>>Keep it open, period.
>>I've been out there. These are good, family, people.
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>>The tragedy is that there are stories like this in North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, California, New York, New Mexico, Maine and many other states.
>>I don't want to see these people hurt, but things have to change and they will, inevitably.
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>I am with you believing that 30-50% of military budget probably could be saved without risking safety of the US, also that (Trump is correct sometimes) Europe, Germany in particular should spend more.
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>But the big spending blocks are the money-for-nothing stuff: social security, food stamps, out of work, medicare/aid and so on.

Management rule #1
Saying that there is another problem does not solve the problem at hand.

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>Cut back spending on all programs for 20% by law, reserve half of the spending cuts to be spent by government again as outcome of political process. Still 10% saved and enough "distribution" work for politicians as newspeople to get exited about...

Read the article. They passed that law (called sequester) and they want an exception for military spending.
Insane.


>And yes, walk softly and carry a big stick was preferrable to drone-kill quite a few non-combatants and tweet loudly

Better yet - don't attack anyone who doesn't attack your homeland.