sanders.senate.gov - 12/18/2008
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Newsroom / Archives Sanders Op-Ed: An expanding military budget taxpayers can't afford (Boston Globe) Date: 05/20/2008 By Sen. Bernie Sanders 'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those ...
sanders.senate.gov - 12/18/2008
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Newsroom / Archives Pentagon Waste Date: 09/09/2008 The
Senate turned Tuesday to the defense authorization bill as...
its first order of business since returning from an August break. Senate leaders hoped to begin debate on amendments. One proposed by ...
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sanders.senate.gov - 12/18/2008
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Newsroom / Archives Sanders Op-Ed: Time to end
waste at the Pentagon Date: 06/24/2008 By: Sen. Bernie...
Sanders and William D. Hartung As Congress prepares to consider the annual Department of Defense authorization bill and other military spending ...
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huffingtonpost.com - 12/18/2008
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The U.S. today has a $10.6 trillion national
debt and huge unmet needs in such areas as...
health care, education, infrastructure and sustainable energy. Unfortunately, in the midst of all of this the Pentagon, with a greatly expanded budget of $540 ...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders: Navy Sinks Billions into Spare Parts
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... To my way of thinking, the waste by the military is even more outrageous at a time when investments in rebuilding roads and bridges and schools are desperately needed as part of an economic recovery package to help pull us out of a steep recession. ...
Navy Sinks Billions into Spare Parts (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
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... that more than half of the Air Force’s secondary inventory, with a total average value of $31.4 billion, was not needed to support service requirements. A report on the Army inventory practices is due out in January. One result of squandering money on excessive spare parts, the latest report concluded, is that “these funds are not available to meet other military needs.” To my way of thinking, the waste by the military is even more outrageous at a time when investments in rebuilding roads and bridges and schools are desperately needed as part of an economic recovery package ...
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