At the beginning of the year, there's a lot of talk about spending restraint and reducing the deficit. At the end of the year, that's all kind of forgotten.
Steven Kosiak
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It's just not that big a chunk of the budget. You've got to go where the money is. There's a lot of rhetoric about spending restraint, but there's been no serious effort to actually address the deficit. Part of the problem is there's no consensus on how to do it.
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People in the White House said [Lindsey] was way off. It turns out he was. But just not in the direction they thought.
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The Army may have a tough time pushing these projected reductions through Congress.
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Interesting rhetoric.. But the really big (weapons) modernization were left untouched.
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If you want to have intelligent questions (from the press), you get better question if you give people time to prepare.
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Waiting till the end of the day means you don't have time to get people to react outside of the briefing, although so much of this has leaked. So I guess it does give them some advantage.
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It's difficult enough to really react to all the data typically included in defense budget. To not even have access to the basic top line over view before you have the opportunity to question the secretary seems problematic. It doesn't have the out years beyond 2007; usually, in fact in all previous blue tops, it had those numbers.
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We're long past the point where you can just look at the DoD budget. Now we're dipping so much into war-related funding.
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