What Military Austerity? No Real Decrease in Pentagon Budget

[ProSense]

2. Wait

“The new budget plan — represented by the green trend line — stands in stark contrast to the reductions mandated by the Budget Control Act under the provisions for sequestration (represented by the red trend line). Sequestration would roll Pentagon base-budget spending back to the level of 2004, which would still be 31 percent above the 1998 level (corrected for inflation). The new budget plan and sequestration do have one thing in common: both would keep Pentagon spending above the inflation-adjusted average for the Cold War years (represented by the horizontal dash line).”

...isn't the green line trending down in the image? Also, the Budget Control Act is Obama's policy, and I love how the subtitle of the image was changed from "Obama vs. Sequestration" to "Panetta vs. Sequestration."



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