[Peace-discuss] Budget Control Act Military Cuts Will Cover the Social Security Shortfall

[Robert Naiman]

If the cuts to military spending over the next 10 years mandated by
the Budget Control Act are allowed to stand, over 75 years that would
save taxpayers about as much money as the currently projected
shortfall in Social Security's finances over the next 75 years. Thus
Members of Congress cannot simultaneously claim that maintaining
current military spending is affordable while claiming that the Social
Security shortfall constitutes a dire fiscal threat, as Robert
Greenstein might say.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/social-security-cuts_b_1453329.html

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
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naiman at justforeignpolicy.org