Some information sharing. Enclosed is a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Mr. Speaker Reid and Mr. Leader Boehner, dated August 1st, that summarizes the estimated impact on the deficit of the Budget Control Act of 2011.
http://cbo.gov/...
It's an interesting letter but a little hard to follow on how it's all going to shake out down the road. But for those interested in the real deal of what it means so far, it's a good reference.
I'd like to point out something in it about the wars. Part of the Act includes discretionary spending caps in future years.
"The August 1, 2011, version of the Budget Control Act of 2011 would impose caps on
appropriations of new discretionary budget authority that start at $1,043 billion in 2012
and reach $1,234 billion in 2021. For 2012 and 2013, separate caps for “security” and
“nonsecurity” budget authority would be in effect; from 2014 on, only one cap would
apply to total discretionary funding."
Then it gives the out the Imperialists need to continue the permanent war standing.
"The caps would not apply to spending for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and for
similar activities (sometimes referred to as overseas contingency operations) or to certain amounts of additional spending for “program integrity” initiatives, for which the act would allow upward adjustments to the caps by specified amounts."
To clarify:
"CBO’s March 2011 baseline, with two adjustments: (1) excluding spending
associated with overseas contingency operations—that is, excluding spending that
was projected by ASSUMING THAT THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING PROVIDED IN 2011 FOR THE WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ WOULD CONTINUE TO BE PROVIDED FOR SIMILAR ACTIVITIES IN FUTURE YEARS, with adjustments for inflation; and (2) incorporating the effect of full-year appropriations for 2011, which were enacted after that baseline was completed." (Emphasis mine)
Seems to me it doesn't really matter what they say about the defense budget. They will get what they need for the wars and occupations they want.
Everybody now, it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
"Listen people, I don't know how you expect to end the wars if you don't sing louder than that. There's about 300 million of you fuckers out there, I want you to start singing. Come on!"