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15. On CNN's GPS with Fareed Zakaria: Military pensions....
Tue May 26, 2015, 11:55 AM
May 2015

...are causing us to spend less on aircraft carriers. This is according to a guest on yesterday's program. How refreshing is Bernie's statement. Of course they said pensions in the military are a "problem" like they are in so many areas of our economy.

However, the Economist magazine notes that the U.S. had to divert so much money due to the bankers following the financial crisis that military spending suffered. Beware of this trick of blaming people for the problems when it's really the rich, foolish Republicans, and Wall Street that's actually causing the problems.

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