Despite the $764 million that was cut from ballistic missile defense spending and related military space and high-tech programs, the outcome was basically good news for BMD. The cuts amount to less than 8.6 percent of the total BMD budget for Fiscal Year 2008, originally presented to Congress by the Bush administration at $8.9 billion.
Somehow, this still sounds a little like "half a loaf is better than...."
1 posted on
05/21/2007 10:17:18 AM PDT by
Paul Ross
To: Jeff Head; Alamo-Girl; ALOHA RONNIE; maui_hawaii; Travis McGee; doug from upland; GOP_1900AD
2 posted on
05/21/2007 10:18:14 AM PDT by
Paul Ross
(Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
To: Paul Ross
Hunter managed to stuff $205 million more back in than the dems wanted.
4 posted on
05/21/2007 2:27:59 PM PDT by
pissant
To: Paul Ross
the program slashed overall BMD funding by more than three quarters of a billion. After six years and three Republican-controlled Congresses had given the Bush administration and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency pretty much whatever they wanted on BMD, this was certainly a sign of changing times on Capitol Hill. Ah those Democrats, showing their support for the defense of this nation in their own immutable way I see.
7 posted on
05/22/2007 7:12:28 AM PDT by
lowbridge
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