Here’s a follow-up to my earlier post on “this administration’s budget priorities”:http://www.globalspin.com/mt/archives/000499.html. A recent “PIPA study”:http://www.globalspin.com/mt/archives/000499.html shows that most Americans have similar budget priorities, but those priorities are very different from the budget proposed by the President and Congress.
_ìThe American public as a whole takes a fairly coherent position. They favor redirecting a portion of defense spending to deficit reduction and social spending and look for savings by cutting spending on large-scale Cold War style capabilities…î_
Fancy that. We all agree, red-staters and blue-staters alike. So why aren’t our representatives being representative?
Another good nugget: “Asked how many nuclear weapons the US needs to have on alert, the median response was just 150.”
How many would you think we have, considering that each one could level a city? Unfortunately that number is classified, but a “recent estimate”:http://www.thebulletin.org/article_nn.php?art_ofn=so04norris puts the number closer to 10,000.