Military Spending is the Weakest Job Creator by Miriam Pemberton Even before the supercommittee’s demise, the defense industry and its Pentagon and congressional allies were making preemptive strikes on the next phase: the automatic cuts, half of them from defense, that are supposed to follow the supercommittee’s failure. And with national unemployment rates stuck near 9 [...]
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Supercommittee Co-Chair Patty Murray Accepts Award from Defense Industry As She Mulls Cuts To Pentagon Budget Photo Credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images Why won’t the mainstream media or supercommittee member Patty Murray talk about her award from the defense industry? October 5, 2011 | When Senator John Kyl, a Republican member of the “supercommittee” charged with [...]
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