Now...didn't Georgie & Dick run on some sort of "strong defense" platform? And haven't Georgie & the Radical Republicans been running around mouthing something about giving the troops everything they need? And didn't Uncle Karl run all those ads highlighting all the times John Kerry voted for cuts in defense spending? Well, anywaythe New York Timesreports that,

The Pentagon plans to retire one of the Navy's 12 aircraft carriers, buy fewer amphibious landing ships for the Marine Corps and delay the development of a costly Army automated combat system as part of $60 billion in proposed cuts over the next six years, Congressional and military officials said Wednesday.

The proposed reductions, the details of which are still being fine-tuned and which would require Congressional approval, result from White House orders to all federal agencies to cut their spending requests for the 2006 fiscal year budgets, which will be submitted to lawmakers early next year.

Now if the Pentagon has to give up one of its aircarft carriers and buy less "toys" in the comming years, imagine what programs like Head Start, or Perkins Grants, or Section Eight housing, etc. will have to cut to pay for Georgie's "tax cuts."
posted by Idle Crank at 12/29/2004 10:50:00 PM