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    Stop the defense cuts!

    March 4, 2012

    By: Rear Adm. James J. Carey
    The Free Lance-Star

    Your Feb. 19 article titled “Focus of bill is defense industry” mentioned the budget cuts now threatening the Pentagon but neglected to mention that they total more than $1 trillion and could cost more than 122,000 Virginians their jobs, [...]

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    Fund NASA

    February 29, 2012

    By George Landrith

    Daily Press

     

    We know NASA scientists do important research at the Langley Research Center in Hampton (“New NASA instrument measures Earth’s energy budget,” Feb. 14th). The question is whether or not their funding will get kneecapped next year by misguided across-the-board budget cuts.

    Unless Congress intervenes, [...]

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    How cuts hurt the military

    February 29, 2012

    By Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Higginbotham, USMC (Ret.)

    The Fayetteville Observer

     

    Cutting Fort Bragg construction in half is bad enough for national security and North Carolina’s economy (“Defense budget calls for $200 million in construction projects at Fort Bragg,” Feb. 14). But it’s nothing compared to the damage another $500 [...]

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    Sequestration Hurts Troops and Security

    February 27, 2012

    By: Brig. Gen. Thomas Pinckney (Ret.)
    Roll Call

    While the economic effect of budget sequestration could be devastating, the risk to our national security is even greater (“Group Paints Grim Picture of Defense Cut Effects,” Feb. 15).

    According to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, hacking $500 billion across every defense [...]

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    Military cuts may not be done with BAFB

    February 26, 2012

    By: Lt. Gen. Garry R. Trexler USAF (Ret.)
    The Times

    Your Feb. 15 article “Defense secretary to visit Barksdale” noted recent defense budget cuts could force the retirement of 21 A-10 Warthogs from the base, but neglected to mention an even bigger problem — that the F-35 fighter jets [...]

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    N.D. not exempt from planned defense cuts

    February 26, 2012

    By: Christopher Bjorke
    Grand Forks Herald

    Grand Forks sends parts for Humvees, Abrams tanks and armored vehicles to Iraq, Afghanistan and points around the world. In return, the Department of Defense sends money.

    In 2010, the military spent $34 million in Grand Forks County, some of it going to [...]

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    Missile threat demands attention

    February 25, 2012

    By: Arne Pedersen
    The Starpress

    Three years after President Obama opened an outstretched hand to Iran and attempted to reset relations with Russia, the former has restarted its drive to build nuclear weapons, including recent missile testing and saber rattling, while the latter has dropped its diplomatic relations to [...]

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    Area’s hit from military cuts in Obama plan may top $14M

    February 25, 2012

    By: Alex Gary
    Rockford Register Star

    From playsets and paper towels to jet fighters, Rock River Valley contractors have their fingers in a lot of military pies.

    So there has been understandable concern since President Barack Obama unveiled a long-term military spending plan in early January that would trim [...]

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    Would Des Moines Air Guard unit be best served by a new direction?

    February 24, 2012

    By: William Petroski
    Des Moines Register

    REPORT: DEFENSE CUTS WOULD COST IOWA $143 MILLION

    BUDGET IMPACT: The leaner military budget proposed by the Pentagon for 2013 would cost Iowa businesses with Department of Defense contracts an estimated $143 million annually, says a study by the Washington-based Center for Security [...]

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    If Unemployment Benefits Stimulate the Economy, What About Defense Spending?

    February 24, 2012

    Daniel Goure, Ph.D.
    DefPro News

     2/24/12

    One of President Obama’s chief advisors recently made headlines with the claim that unemployment benefits stimulate the economy. This is a repetition of the administration’s Keynesian mantra we have heard for three years. The theory is that because unemployment benefits go to those [...]

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