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The following remarks were delivered by Loren Thompson at the Cato Institute on November 19. They acknowledge that defense spending will need to fall in the years ahead, but use four programs favored by deficit panels for cuts to illustrate how slashing weapons
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Date:
11/19/2010
Sixteen months ago, in October of 2008, I wrote an improbable issue brief titled, "Five Reasons Weapons Spending Won't Fall." It argued that if Barack Obama won the White House, he wouldn't slash weapons outlays the way other recent Democratic presidents had. That thesis contradicted a model of
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Date:
2/4/2010

