Survey: Majority of Voters Favor Defense Cuts [View all]
From the US News and World Report:
Survey: Majority of Voters Favor Defense Cuts
By John T. Bennett July 16, 2012
Overwhelming numbers of Americans living in both Republican-leaning and Democratic-leaning congressional districts favor slashing annual military spending, according to a new survey.
Seventy-four percent of Americans living in Republican districts say they favor cutting the Pentagon's budget, while 80 percent residing in Democratic districts answered the same.
The survey was conducted by the Stimson Center, Center for Public Integrity and Program for Public Consultation.
It found that participants hailing from districts that receive the highest levels of defense dollars "were no less willing" than respondents in districts that get the least amount of money to shrink the Pentagon's slice of the federal budget pie....
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http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/dotmil/2012/07/16/survey-majority-of-voters-favor-defense-cutsAs the article states OVERWHELMING numbers of Americans both Democrat and Republican favor reducing military spending. Will the Democrats step up to the plate and take the lead on this issue which has broad bipartisan support from all corners of America? If not WHY?
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