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President Obama has put forward his budget to Congress. He seeks to cut $1 trillion in spending over the next ten years. Unfortunately, rather than focusing on the biggest item in the discretionary budget, security funding – including the military, domestic security and intelligence which makes up 66% of federal discretionary spending – he is cutting essential programs for Americans.

In this article, The Security Budget vs. the Necessities of Americans, I describe how the $1 trillion in cuts he seeks could have been taken out of the military and not undermine national security, still leaving the U.S. the strongest nation in the world. Further, I examine the long history of spending on the military economy and how it has undermined the civilian economy since President Eisenhower warned the country about the military-industrial complex fifty years ago.

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