2011 defense budget request likely to shrink

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2011 defense budget request likely to shrink
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Jul 21, 2010 10:13:55 EDT

There no longer appears to be any doubt that Congress will reduce the 2011 defense budget.

It’s only a matter of deciding how much to cut.

The House Appropriations Committee voted Tuesday to trim $7 billion out of the Obama administration’s defense request, in the wake of an $8.1 billion cut approved last week by the Senate Appropriations Committee.

That doesn’t mean, however, that defense spending would decline from the current year.

Even with a $7 billion reduction, defense spending still would rise by $15.7 billion in 2011 over the 2010 budget.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. $7B?

[liberal N proud]

2. This thing is like the blob

It just keep growing and growing. Even when you try to reduce it, it bulges our elsewhere.

We are defending ourselves into oblivion.