re: #721 LGoPs

Everything I’ve heard, defense is getting decreased. Where do you get increased by 8%.

“Media Reports Major Defense Budget Cuts As Obama Proposes Increase In Defense Budget

In other words, by retooling the Pentagon, Obama and Gates plan to move a lot of money around, but they also plan to increase the overall defense budget. In the final year of the Bush administration (and excluding the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) the defense budget was $513 billion. In FY 2010, if Gates and Obama get their way, it will be $534 billion—$534 billion that will be spent much differently than last year’s outlays were.

But you’d never know that from the news coverage. “

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