from gooznews.........
"Overall Pentagon spending next year is projected to be virtually unchanged, since spending on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is slated to drop to $119 billion from $157 billion this year. In other words, virtually the entire “peace dividend,” which could be shifted to deficit reduction if President Obama succeeds in his plan to draw down troops, will be siphoned off to other military programs under both the House and president’s proposed spending plans.
“Our military contractors are now the equivalent of state-owned enterprises in the former Soviet Union,” said Douglas A. Macgregor, a retired military officer and Pentagon critic. “They hold people on the Hill hostage to jobs”................LINK
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