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House Republicans attempt to prevent cuts to Pentagon, drop 280,000 children off school lunch program

House Republicans insist that they are serious about tackling the deficit issue, but apparently automatic cuts to defense spending, a result from last year's budget agreements, just can't happen. Instead of across-the-board cuts which would come into place from the sequester, they are trying to shield cuts to defense by pushing the burden elsewhere.

What are your thoughts on this? Why is defense spending "untouchable"?

Posted May 11, 2012, 12:17 AM UTC

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Eh? Isn't this subreddit to discuss Republican policies and issues? Republicans in Congress are doing some really weird shit and I'd like to understand the thought process.

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Are you serious? So this is only for Republican circle jerking? I came here looking for answers, not to talk shit about Republicans.

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It is already getting cut by 500 billion in automatic cuts over the next ten years.

Secondly, you just cant expect to solve all your problems with the spending at the hill with gutting one department. The sensible thing to do is to cut from every agency and getting rid of the useless agencies like the TSA to save money. You can raise taxes on me if you put forward legislation that gets us a freaking budget for the next five to ten years. So we actually know where our money is going to and is not being wasted as much.

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I agree with all of this. Unfortunately, Republicans in congress refuse to entertain revenue increases. It's all cuts, all the time, but please not to defense because terrorists! They said with the automatic cuts, we'd lose 200,000 soliders. And their solution was to kick 280,000 kids off their school lunch program. I'm having a really difficult time understanding the way they think.

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