Cut the Pentagon budget

Wed., Feb. 8, 2012

At a time when budgets are tight and programs and services in our community are being cut back, the Pentagon budget keeps getting bigger.

The secretary of defense announced on Jan. 26 that he plans to slow the rate of growth for the Pentagon budget, but even under this proposal in 10 years the Pentagon budget would still be bigger than it is today.

I hope, but I also doubt, that our members of Congress will stick with the current law, which requires the Pentagon to cut its budget by nearly $1 trillion over the next decade – twice what the secretary is proposing.

Over the last decade, the Pentagon budget has grown by 100 percent. Most of that has gone to fighting these endless and useless wars. The most certain way to destroy our country is to continue on this path of continuous war, and to continue to give our military-industrial complex unlimited funding.

Tom Charles

Spokane

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