October 31, 2011
Robert Samuelson told Washington Post readers that we cannot have large cuts in the military budget without jeopardizing the country’s security. He seems to have forgotten the country spent 3.0 percent of GDP on the military in 2000 and was projected to continue to spend at that level or less. If the country were to return military spending to this level it would save more than $2.6 trillion over the next decade, before counting interest savings.
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