Backtalk: Bloated budget

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Bloated budget
By George C. Wilson

As President Bush backs out the White House door, he is asking Congress to appropriate enough money for the coming fiscal year to enable the Pentagon and its government sidekicks to spend $1.2 million a minute on what is loosely called national defense.

Bush does not propose raising taxes, canceling any major weapons or getting out of the Iraq and Afghanistan quagmires to reduce the mountain of debt that this biggest binge of defense spending since World War II will pile up.

So the new president will be waterboarded by red ink next year unless Congress intercedes this year. Which it won’t.

Congress will swallow most of Bush’s final defense requests without even chewing on them for the same old reasons.

No politician, especially not in an election year like this one, wants to give his opponent or anyone else grounds to call him or her weak on defense.


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