-Caveat Lector-
Well done Samantha, but there's more....
> Behalf Of Samantha L.
> http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/24/pentagon.budget/
> exerpt
> Last year, the administration proposal was $267 billion. Congress added
> almost $5 billion to that to bring the total to $272.4 billion for fiscal
> year 2000, for a total increase of $9.8 billion, or 3.75 percent. This did
> not include supplemental appropriations to cover the cost of operations in
> Bosnia and Kosovo.
> This year's proposed $291 billion is an increase of 6.83 percent.
> The last time the Pentagon received so large an increase in its
> budget was in
> 1983, when the defense budget went up 7.4 percent to $239 billion. In 1999
> inflation-adjusted dollars that would be equal to $383 billion.
Catch-up Funding might be the reason for such a large increase. I also find
it hard to believe Clinton was strapped for eight years with Bush's Defense
Budget. Read on....
http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/24/pentagon.budget/
excerpt (same article continued)
In this election year, the proposal could draw charges of playing politics.
Republican presidential candidates have criticized the Clinton
administration for underfunding the military and causing what they called a
resulting decline in readiness.
One of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's campaign themes is
restoring military spending. And George W. Bush, who advocates "clear-eyed
realism" in foreign policy, says he will set national defense as the "first
focus" of a Bush administration should he be elected.
Both hopefuls have come down hard on Clinton's dealings with the military
budgets during his administration.
"There is almost no relationship between our budget priorities and a
strategic vision," Bush says. "The last seven years have been wasted in
inertia and idle talk."
McCain backs increased defense spending, claiming that "not since Pearl
Harbor has our investment in national defense been so low as a percentage of
our gross national product."
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