Sacred Cow
October, 2011
ONE THING WASHINGTON CAN AGREE ON: HANDS OFF MILITARY SPENDINGPartisan bickering. Political gridlock. Right versus left. Our politicians can't agree on anything. These phrases accompany any and all political debate in Washington, D.C. We heard them endlessly during last summer's debt-ceiling deal. But there's no disagreement when it comes to one part of our federal budget: military spending. A quarter of every dollar Washington spends goes to defense. Such spending has increased without interru...
