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PENTAGON BUDGET NEWSLETTER # 2. APRIL 18, 2014.
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology. (#1 Nov. 21, 2013)
Kant also on standing armies in Perpetual Peace: http://www.constitution.org/kant/perpeace.htm
Newsletters
Index:
See: Cyber Command, Hagel, Military Industrial
Complex, Oversight, Propaganda Machine, Special Ops Command, Suicides, US Imperial Westward Pacific/E. Asia, Whistleblowers,
Women (mistreatment of ), and more.
Pentagon asks for $4.5
billion additional money for “defensive” missiles.
Percentage of discretionary
spending devoted to “defense” in President Barack Obama’s proposed 2014 budget:
57
Percentage devoted to
education: 6
Rank of the United States
Rank of Greece
Rank of Lithuania
From Yes! (Fall 2013).
Contents of #1 at end.
Contents Pentagon Budget Newsletter #2, Pentagon vs. Public
Pentagon: Increase Budget for Expanded War
Threatening
Budget Larger Than Appears
Audit the Pentagon
FCNL, 40% Taxes go to War
Credo, End Pentagon Slush
Fund
Dick, Mainstream
Media , Arkansas
Dick,
Chief Fear-Monger Journalist in Arkansas
Global Network, Facts about
the New War Budget
Tomgram, Mattea Kramer, More
Facts
Gilson, Battle
Military Pressure to
Increase (see Military Industrial Complex Newsletter)
Pentagon: Increase Missile “Defense” (War) Budget
Public Struggle to Reduce Budget and Convert Money
and Resources to Beneficial Purposes
Progressive Secretary, vote "no" on H.R. 3639.
Public Reduce Budget
Public Reduce Budget
Just Foreign Policy, Sign
Petition to Cut War Budget for Unemployment Benefits
FCNL, Cut the Budget
WAND Film, End the F-35
Contents #1, 2014
Dear Dick, April 18, 2014
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This action supports a campaign by Daily KOS asking Congress to
stop cutting spending on vital social services until there's a full audit of
Pentagon spending.
Our letter will be sent to the President and to Congress.
Our letter will be sent to the President and to Congress.
The Pentagon desperately needs a good audit of
its spending. It's needed one for many years. Even though the Defense
Finance and Accounting Service has 13,000 employees, poor oversight has
destroyed the Pentagon's accountability.
A 2009 Government Accountability Office report found problems with one of every 69 Defense audits it conducted. Considering the trillions of dollars theUS
Essential social services should not be cut when so much money is being misspent by the military. Please address this pervasive culture of fraud in the Department of Defense.
A 2009 Government Accountability Office report found problems with one of every 69 Defense audits it conducted. Considering the trillions of dollars the
Essential social services should not be cut when so much money is being misspent by the military. Please address this pervasive culture of fraud in the Department of Defense.
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Dear James Bennett,
April 15, 2014
Happy Tax Day — kind of. While your taxes provide for the
common good, a disproportionate share of your income tax dollars goes to the
Pentagon. Clocking
in at a whopping 40 cents on the dollar, the Pentagon budget is out of step
with our priorities.
While our country spends 40 cents of every income tax dollar
you pay on the military and war, it spends only 2 cents per dollar on
diplomacy, development and war prevention. Does that sound right to you?Share this graphic if you think the coins should be
stacked differently.
This isn't the way our country should be spending its money.
And we want people to know that. Get the details, share it on Facebook or Twitter, and write a letter to the editor asking for a budget that meets the
actual needs of our country.
Sincerely
  Jim CasonAssociate Executive Secretary for Strategic Advocacy
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Dear Dick,
If you want Congress to cut back on the unconscionable amounts
of money we spend on the enormously bloated American war machine, then take
this action to rein in American military spending.
For more than a decade, Congress has funded the wars in
Now, with the Iraq War thankfully over and the
occupation of Afghanistan winding down (albeit still too slowly), the
Pentagon is using the Overseas Contingency Operations account as a slush fund
to pad the military budget and spare it from the brutal across-the-board
spending cuts known as the “sequester” that are hitting everything from Head
Start to cancer research.
The official Pentagon budget request for 2015 was recently
released, and in addition to nearly $500 billion in its base budget, the
Pentagon also included a $79 billion estimate for the Overseas Contingency
Operations budget.
This is a small decrease from last year’s war budget, despite
a sharp reduction in troops in
Although the Budget Control Act of 2011 (the same legislation
that gave us the sequester) nominally set a cap on Pentagon spending,
Overseas Contingency Operations funds were exempted.
And so the Pentagon, with the blessing of congressional
appropriators, has simply shifted tens of billions in spending from its base
budget, which is subject to the spending caps, to the Overseas Contingency
Operations budget, which isn’t.
We should be drastically reducing military spending, not
allowing the Pentagon to exploit a loophole that not only pads its budget but
also cloaks how it spends tens of billions of dollars in secrecy.
The caps on military spending were one of the few good things
in the Budget Control Act.
We already spend far too much on our military, both in
absolute terms and as a share of government spending.
And with the Pentagon budget now twice what it was in 2001,
there’s a massive amounts of fat that can be cut from the Pentagon budget
before it even plausibly starts to endanger our national security.
While the fight to bring our military spending in line
with our national security needs will be a long and tough slog, in the interim
one step we can take is demand that Congress recognize the need to stop the
Pentagon from turning what was its war budget into an unaccountable,
non-transparent slush fund.
Tell Congress: Rein in military spending and end the
Pentagon slush fund. Click the link below to automatically sign the petition.
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Dear Dick,
Here is a new Progressive Secretary letter. You will be able to edit your name, address, etc. in the next step.
Here is a new Progressive Secretary letter. You will be able to edit your name, address, etc. in the next step.
This action supports a campaign by US Action asking Congress to
vote "no" on H.R. 3639. This bill would end sequestration cuts to
Pentagon budgets by cutting Social Security and Medicare.
Our letter will be sent to the President and to Congress.
Our letter will be sent to the President and to Congress.
I urge you to vote "no" on H.R.
3639.
This bill would spare the Pentagon from the effects of sequestration by cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits.
The Pentagon budget is full of waste. Neither weapons, ammunition, nor supplies are tracked. Thus the Pentagon purchases new supplies that it doesn't need.
The Defense Department has a backlog of more than 500 billion dollars in unaudited contracts with outside vendors. We don't know whether that money paid for actual goods and services. In fact, the Pentagon has not accounted for the 8.5 trillion dollars it has spent since 1996.
If the Pentagon needs more money, it should reduce its own waste. They shouldn't take it from elderly and disabled people or widows and children.
This bill would spare the Pentagon from the effects of sequestration by cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits.
The Pentagon budget is full of waste. Neither weapons, ammunition, nor supplies are tracked. Thus the Pentagon purchases new supplies that it doesn't need.
The Defense Department has a backlog of more than 500 billion dollars in unaudited contracts with outside vendors. We don't know whether that money paid for actual goods and services. In fact, the Pentagon has not accounted for the 8.5 trillion dollars it has spent since 1996.
If the Pentagon needs more money, it should reduce its own waste. They shouldn't take it from elderly and disabled people or widows and children.
Click here to send this
letter or to learn more (you can edit the
subject or the letter itself in the next step, if you wish).
Sincerely,
Kathie Turner, Executive Director
Kathie Turner, Executive Director
5 Reasons the Already Obscene
National Security Budget Is Larger than It Appears
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NationofChange, March 9, 2014: When President Obama released his budget for
2015 on Tuesday,
which included four hundred ninety five point six billion dollars for the
Pentagon, the likely suspects screamed that the sky is going to fall. Not
only does this budget allocate a mere four hundred and twenty million dollars
less than the Defense Department received from Congress this year, it
represents just a fraction of the
actual amount that will go towards maintaining the massive |
MAINSTREAM MEDIA , ARKANSAS
PAUL
GREENBERG, FEAR-WAR-MONGER IN ARKANSAS
Budget
Realignment Reflects Pentagon's Vision of Covert and ...
Dissident Voice-
Budget Realignment Reflects Pentagon's Vision of Covert and Endless War. by Brian J. Trautman / March 2nd, 2014. The Pentagon's budget proposal for next ...
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There is disagreement about the
Latin phrase in the logo. Does it mean liberator or oppressor? I
guess that's why they keep it darkly hidden.
Notice the arrows through the head
above - a throwback to the killing of the Native Americans. These are
the crazy killers.
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[NEW
BUDGET INCREASE AND WHERE IT WILL GO]
Secretary
of War Chuck Hagel yesterday [Feb. 24, 2014] announced the Obama
administration's Pentagon budget proposal for the coming year. Despite
mandates for cuts in military spending after agreements with Congress under
sequestration, Hagel actually calls for
an increase of more than $115 billion for war making.
The Hagel budget basically calls for cuts in Army ground forces and cutbacks in military pay, housing and commissary facilities on bases. Life for the enlisted will become more difficult. The Pentagon is also calling for the closing of a few National Guard posts in some states.
Hagel calls for 'sustaining' the Pentagon's nuclear triad - air, ground, and sea delivery systems of nuclear weapons. Also called for is an increase in drones and robotic forces as well as significant expansion in cyber warfare capabilities.
Wall Street immediately reacted by joyfully giving Lockheed-Martin all-time high stock gains. The writing on the wall is clear - cuts in troop levels and increase in high-tech space directed war-making capability.
We will see an expansion of US "hidden" wars in the near future and the Obama budget reflects this reality. While Hagel wants to pare back the size of the active-duty military by 13% and the reserves by 5% in coming years he would boost the size of Special Operations forces by about 6%. The plan is to add more than 3,000 personnel to the kinds of special ops forces teams that reportedly killed Osama bin Laden inPakistan
These same clandestine forces now operate in more than 75 countries around the world. In his film “Dirty Wars” investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill reports on the largely unaccountable Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) that is now doing targeted assassinations, destabilization, and training of right-wing and terrorist forces used by the US in places like Ukraine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and beyond. The corporate oligarchy is moving rapidly to consolidate their total control of the people around the world and theUS
Mainstream media reports of the Hagel announcement also tag two key places on the planet that will receive special emphasis from this new budget. Those are the African continent and the Asia-Pacific. This is where the long-range military operations planning and funding are heading.
Our organizing (no matter whether it is local, regional, national or international) needs to take into account this very fundamental direction the Obama supported military complex is tacking toward.
The Hagel budget basically calls for cuts in Army ground forces and cutbacks in military pay, housing and commissary facilities on bases. Life for the enlisted will become more difficult. The Pentagon is also calling for the closing of a few National Guard posts in some states.
Hagel calls for 'sustaining' the Pentagon's nuclear triad - air, ground, and sea delivery systems of nuclear weapons. Also called for is an increase in drones and robotic forces as well as significant expansion in cyber warfare capabilities.
Wall Street immediately reacted by joyfully giving Lockheed-Martin all-time high stock gains. The writing on the wall is clear - cuts in troop levels and increase in high-tech space directed war-making capability.
We will see an expansion of US "hidden" wars in the near future and the Obama budget reflects this reality. While Hagel wants to pare back the size of the active-duty military by 13% and the reserves by 5% in coming years he would boost the size of Special Operations forces by about 6%. The plan is to add more than 3,000 personnel to the kinds of special ops forces teams that reportedly killed Osama bin Laden in
These same clandestine forces now operate in more than 75 countries around the world. In his film “Dirty Wars” investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill reports on the largely unaccountable Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) that is now doing targeted assassinations, destabilization, and training of right-wing and terrorist forces used by the US in places like Ukraine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and beyond. The corporate oligarchy is moving rapidly to consolidate their total control of the people around the world and the
Mainstream media reports of the Hagel announcement also tag two key places on the planet that will receive special emphasis from this new budget. Those are the African continent and the Asia-Pacific. This is where the long-range military operations planning and funding are heading.
Our organizing (no matter whether it is local, regional, national or international) needs to take into account this very fundamental direction the Obama supported military complex is tacking toward.
[JOBS
and CONVERSION]
In addition it is important that we all talk more about jobs. It will be hard to cut military spending because of the local jobs issue. We must speak to this fundamental concern that is wrapped in fear, as everyone knows that jobs are scarce these days.
The growing conversion movement across the nation indicates that more and more groups are making these job connections. Imagine if military production workers and the peace movement were to stand hand-in-hand calling for conversion of the military industrial complex. In the early 1990’s that was indeed happening across the nation when William Winpisinger served as President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. He vigorously took on the responsibility to link military production workers with peace groups in order to successfully demand conversion after the end of the Cold War. That promised “peace dividend” though never came to be as new “enemies” were created in the Middle East andCentral Asia .
The conversion issue was deflated….. but not defeated.
In addition it is important that we all talk more about jobs. It will be hard to cut military spending because of the local jobs issue. We must speak to this fundamental concern that is wrapped in fear, as everyone knows that jobs are scarce these days.
The growing conversion movement across the nation indicates that more and more groups are making these job connections. Imagine if military production workers and the peace movement were to stand hand-in-hand calling for conversion of the military industrial complex. In the early 1990’s that was indeed happening across the nation when William Winpisinger served as President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. He vigorously took on the responsibility to link military production workers with peace groups in order to successfully demand conversion after the end of the Cold War. That promised “peace dividend” though never came to be as new “enemies” were created in the Middle East and
Many of
us across the nation have stayed on message during these darker years.
We’ve kept talking about conversion and linking jobs. We are eternally
grateful to the
Department of Economics and Political Economy Research
Institute (PERI) at the
University of Massachusetts-Amherst. They’ve continued to give us the empirical
evidence that proves military production was the very worst way to create
jobs. In every other case – rail, wind, solar, conservation, teachers,
hospitals, or even tax cuts create more jobs.
The
jobs issue is the long-sought buried treasure that we’ve been looking for….
right before our eyes. Pick it up.
Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet@mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet@mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)
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And so it goes. At stake has been leaving a residual force of U.S. and NATO trainers, advisors, and special operations types behind for years to come, perhaps (the figures varied with the moment)3,000-12,000 of them. With time, things only got curiouser and curiouser. The less Karzai complied, the more Obama administration and Pentagon officials betrayed an overwhelmingneed to stay. In the 13th year of a war that just wouldn’t go right, this strange dance between the most powerful state on the planet and one of the least powerful heads of state anywhere, to say the least, puzzling. Why didn't the Americans just follow through on their zero-option threats and pull the plug on Karzai and the war? [3 explanations follow –Dick] Obviously, fear that the Taliban might gain ground in a major way after such a departure was one reason. In January, David Sanger and Eric Schmitt of the New York Timesprovided another. They reported that a paramount issue for The Pentagon’s Phony Budget War Or How the U.S. Military Avoided Budget Cuts, Lied About Doing So, Then Asked for Billions More By Mattea Kramer Yet a careful look at budget figures for the U.S. military -- a bureaucratic juggernaut accounting for 57% of the federal discretionary budget and nearly 40% of all military spending on this planet -- shows that such claims have been largely fictional. Despite cries of doom since the across-the-board cuts known as sequestration surfaced in Washington in 2011, the Pentagon has seen few actual reductions, and there is no indication that will change any time soon. This piece of potentially explosive news has, however, gone missing in action -- and the “news” that replaced it could prove to be one of the great bait-and-switch stories of our time. Click here to read more of this dispatch. |
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Today, TomDispatch regular Mattea Kramer provides a third
potential reason in her striking explanation of just how the Pentagon has been managing to avoid serious sequestration cuts.
It turns out that billions of dollars in extra funding are being salted away
in a supplementary war-fighting budget
that Congress grants the
That's just one of the questions that emerges from Kramer’s clear-eyed look at what -- once you’ve read her piece -- can only be considered the Pentagon’s sequestration con game. It’s a shocking tale largely because, while the budget figures are clear enough, you can’t read about them anywhere except here at TomDispatch. Tom
The Pentagon’s Phony Budget War
Or How the U.S. Military Avoided Budget Cuts, Lied About Doing So, Then Asked for Billions More By Mattea Kramer
Yet a careful look at budget figures
for the U.S. military -- a bureaucratic juggernaut accounting for 57% of the federal discretionary budget
and nearly 40% of all military spending on this
planet -- shows that such claims have been largely fictional. Despite cries
of doom since the across-the-board cuts
known as sequestration surfaced in Washington in 2011, the Pentagon has seen
few actual reductions, and there is no indication that will change any time
soon.
This
piece of potentially explosive news has, however, gone missing in action --
and the “news” that replaced it could prove to be one of the great
bait-and-switch stories of our time.
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Dear Dick,
Urge Congress and the
President to extend unemployment benefits by using the money in the war budget
that President Obama didn't ask for.
Sign our petition
Just over a week ago, the Senate failed to pass a three-month
extension of assistance to the long-term unemployed due to disagreements over
how to pay for it. While many object to offsetting an extension of unemployment
assistance with cuts elsewhere, there is no plausible political path now for
extending assistance to the long-term unemployed that does not include an
offset.
Fortunately, the roughly $6 billion cost can be covered by
cutting $5.7 billion from the war budget that never
belonged there in the first place. [1] The President never requested this money;
Congress put the money there to pay for Pentagon contractor pork that wouldn't
fit in the base Pentagon budget. If that money isn't redirected to some useful
purpose, it's going to be wasted on Pentagon contractor pork.
Sign our petition to Congress and the President telling them to use the $5.7 billion of
unrequested funding in the war budget to help 1.7 million unemployed Americans
and their families rather than waste it on Pentagon contractor pork.
The war in Afghanistan
Sign and share our petition to Congress and the President:
Thanks for all you do to help bring our war dollars home,
Robert
Naiman, Chelsea Mozen, and Megan Iorio
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1. Extend Unemployment Assistance by Cutting the War Budget,” Robert Naiman, Huffington Post, February 17, 2014, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/extend-unemployment-assis_b_4804121.html
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References:
1. Extend Unemployment Assistance by Cutting the War Budget,” Robert Naiman, Huffington Post, February 17, 2014, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/extend-unemployment-assis_b_4804121.html
DAVE
GILSON, “DON’T TREAD ON ME,” MOTHER JONES (Jan/Feb. 2013). The
battle over sequestration’s trillion $ budget cut over 10 years sees
congressional hawks, Pentagon officials, and weapons contractors swarming over
White House, Congress, and the media.
Dramatic visuals and statistics divided into 10 topics.
–Dick
Sorry, I couldn’t copy the
visuals.]
The Pentagon in classic
“duh” thinking has asked for more billions to increase US missile
“defense” (war, defensive threatening is peace), because it has finally
occurred to them that the over 70 years of US military buildup throughout the
Pacific and E. Asia against diverse “threats” (and no counter threats from the
Reds) might have aroused China and North Korea (and throw in Iran another “evil
empire” farther westward) to think of
actually defending themselves from tangible, factual threats . --Dick
PENTAGON: INCREASE THE BUDGET AGAINST MORE “THREATS”
Pentagon to boost missile defense spending by
over $4 billion
Global Network
[globalnet@mindspring.com]To: Peaceworks
[peaceworks@lists.riseup.net]
Saturday, February 08, 2014 9:40 AM
Exclusive: Pentagon to boost
missile defense spending by over $4 billion.
By Andrea Shalal-Esa
Feb 7 2014
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense
Department plans to ask Congress for $4.5 billion in extra missile defense
funding over the next five years as part of the fiscal 2015 budget request, say
congressional sources and an expert.
Nearly $1 billion of that sum will pay for a new
homeland defense radar to be placed in Alaska
The Pentagon's request for added funding comes
despite continued pressure on military spending and cuts in other arms
programs, a sign of Washington 's growing concern about missile
development efforts by North Korea
and Iran
The White House plans to send its fiscal 2015
budget request to Congress on March 4.
Missile
defense is one of the biggest items in the Pentagon's annual budget, although Republicans
have faulted the Obama administration for scaling back funding in recent years.
The request is expected to garner bipartisan
support in Congress, but it may also spark questions about billions of dollars
spent over the past two decades on a "kill vehicle" built by the
Raytheon Co that is used to hit enemy missiles and destroy them on impact.
The kill vehicle is part of the larger
ground-based missile defense system managed by Boeing Co. Orbital Sciences Corp
builds the rockets used by the system.
Michael Gilmore, the Defense Department's chief
weapons tester, last week questioned the robustness of the Raytheon kill
vehicle after a series of test failures, and said the Pentagon should consider
a redesign.
"We need a new interceptor that actually
works," said one of the congressional sources, adding that both of the
existing kill vehicle models also needed to be fixed and tested since the
replacement would need about five years to be made ready.
Ellison said the issue needed to be addressed
quickly, given the Obama
administration's push to buy 14 additional ground-based interceptors to beef up
U.S. defenses against a
potential missile strike from North
Korea
"We need to have this thing as soon as
possible," Ellison said. He said some lawmakers might balk at paying for
new interceptors that carried the current troubled kill vehicle, since a
replacement would not be ready for about five years.
Twenty of the existing 30 ground-based
interceptors carry the CE-1 version of the kill vehicle which failed to
separate from the rest of the rocket in a flight test last July, said one of the
congressional sources.
The other ten interceptors are equipped with a
newer CE-2 kill vehicle, which has also suffered several problems and flight
test failures, said the source.
The Missile Defense Agency aims to test fixes
developed for the CE-2 kill vehicle this summer, after it wraps up its review
of the July flight test failure, said agency spokesman Rick Lehner. That is
months later than initially planned.
The agency's investigation into the July failure
pinpointed the cause as a power fluctuation in the kill vehicle's battery,
which caused the flight control computer to reset itself, according to two of
the congressional sources.
"That battery had been in that interceptor
for 10 years," said one of the sources, adding that it remained uncertain
what caused the power fluctuation in the battery.
It was not immediately clear if or when an
additional test of the CE-1 kill vehicle was planned.
John Patterson, a spokesman for Raytheon, said
his company was working closely with Boeing and the Pentagon "to improve
this program's kill vehicle capability."
Raytheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin Corp have
already begun early conceptual work on a simpler and smaller "common kill
vehicle." That program aims to build on the successes of Lockheed's Aegis
missile system, which uses the SM-3 missile built by Raytheon, and the
propulsion system used on the current kill vehicle. The effort also hopes to
reduce costs by achieving more commonality.
Lehner said the approved fiscal 2014 budget
included $70 million for initial work on the common kill vehicle, or a total of
about $350 million over the five years through fiscal 2018.
He said he had no information on how the program
would be designated or incorporated in future budget requests, or what future
funding might be.
One of the congressional sources said the
Pentagon now planned to transition its current concept work on a common kill
vehicle into a full-fledged acquisition program, after a competition among the
three companies working on the program.
Later the Pentagon also hopes to develop an
interceptor that could carry multiple kill vehicles, the source said.
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EFFORTS TO REDUCE PENTAGON’S HIMALAYA OF MONEY
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Here is a new Progressive Secretary letter. You will be able to edit your name, address, etc. in the next step.
This action supports a campaign by US Action asking Congress to vote "no" on H.R. 3639. This bill would end sequestration cuts to Pentagon budgets by cutting Social Security and Medicare.
Our letter will be sent to the President and to Congress.
I
urge you to vote "no" on H.R. 3639.
This bill would spare the Pentagon from the effects of sequestration by cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits.
The Pentagon budget is full of waste. Neither weapons, ammunition, nor or supplies are tracked. Thus the Pentagon purchases new supplies that it doesn't need.
The Defense Department has a backlog of more than 500 billion dollars in unaudited contracts with outside vendors. We don't know whether that money paid for actual goods and services. In fact, the Pentagon has not accounted for the 8.5 trillion dollars it has spent since 1996.
If the Pentagon needs more money, it should reduce its own waste. They shouldn't take it from elderly and disabled people or widows and children.
Click here to send this letter or to
learn more (you can
edit the subject or the letter itself in the next step, if you wish).This bill would spare the Pentagon from the effects of sequestration by cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits.
The Pentagon budget is full of waste. Neither weapons, ammunition, nor or supplies are tracked. Thus the Pentagon purchases new supplies that it doesn't need.
The Defense Department has a backlog of more than 500 billion dollars in unaudited contracts with outside vendors. We don't know whether that money paid for actual goods and services. In fact, the Pentagon has not accounted for the 8.5 trillion dollars it has spent since 1996.
If the Pentagon needs more money, it should reduce its own waste. They shouldn't take it from elderly and disabled people or widows and children.
Sincerely, Kathie Turner, Executive Director
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SENATORS
Sen. John Boozman
Republican, first term 320 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-4843 Fax: (202) 228-1371 Arkansas offices: FORT SMITH: (479) 573-0189 JONESBORO: (870) 268-6925 LITTLE ROCK: (501) 372-7153 LOWELL: (479) 725-0400 MOUNTAIN HOME: (870) 424-0129 STUTTGART: (870) 672-6941 EL DORADO: (870) 863-4641 Website: www.boozman.senate.gov
Sen. Mark Pryor
Democrat, second term 255 Dirksen Office Building Constitution Avenue and First Street NE Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2353 Fax: (202) 228-0908 Little Rock office: (501) 324-6336
Website: www.pryor.senate.gov
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REPRESENTATIVES
Rep. Rick Crawford
1ST DISTRICT Republican, second term 1771 Independence Avenues SE Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: (202) 225-4076 Fax: (202) 225-5602 CABOT: (501) 843-3043 MOUNTAIN HOME: (870) 424-2075 Website: www.crawford.house.gov
Rep. Tim Griffin
2ND DISTRICT Republican, second term 1232 Independence Avenues SE Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: (202) 225-2506 Fax: (202) 225-5903 LITTLE ROCK: (501) 324-5491 Website: www.griffin.house.gov
Rep. Steve Womack
3RD DISTRICT Republican, second term 1119 Longworth Office Building New Jersey and Independence Avenues SE Washington 20515 Phone: (202) 225-4301 Fax: (202) 225-5713 Arkansas offices: ROGERS: (479) 464-0446 HARRISON: (870) 741-7741 FORT SMITH: (479) 424-1146 Website: www.womack.house.gov
Rep. Tom Cotton
4TH DISTRICT Republican, first term 415 Phone: (202) 225-43772 HOT SPRINGS: (501) 520-5892 PINE BLUFF: (870) 536-3376 Website: www.cotton.house.gov
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