by | Sep 21, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
By: Stephen Miles and William Hartung(Crossposted at The Huffington Post and Win Without War)This week in Washington the halls of Congress have been flooded with talk about looming cuts to the Pentagon. With members of Congress floating plans to undo planned cuts...
by | Sep 19, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Take a look at this story by Jeremy Herb from The Hill yesterday and be prepared to stifle a huge scream. As Herb wrote, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen...
by | Sep 14, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Bruce Bartlett emailed me to say that, rather than cancel the sequester as I recommended, we should get the band back together and reconstitute the anything-but-super committee to give it another chance to come up with a...
by | Sep 12, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. I want to say this as directly as possible: The sequester - the Jan. 2 across-the-board spending cut that was triggered when the anything-but-super committee failed to agree on a deficit reduction plan last November -...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 10, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
You might be hearing about the "Fiscal Cliff." And you might be hearing about a "Grand Bargain." You certainly have heard about "Simpson Bowles." You will be hearing more and more about these strangely-named things because the usual suspects are cranking up the usual...
by | Aug 27, 2012 | Blog, Economy, The Sequester
The author is the Director of Public Policy for POGO (Project On Government Oversight) The big Pentagon contractors have been trying to scare lawmakers, the public, and the troops with dramatic claims that there will be massive job losses. For nearly a year, these...
