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BOOST MILITARY, NOT PORK.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
President Bush is calling on Congress to approve an additional $18 billion in military spending next year. But the prodigal spenders in Congress have suddenly turned cheap. They say the shrinking surplus forbids the request.
It doesn't. The shrinking surplus is just a reminder that Congress is spending too much on inessential programs. The military is not one of them.
Bush is correct. Military spending belongs, as he says, "at the front of the line." National security is, after all, the primary duty of the federal government.
The military under President Clinton endured eight years of neglect, overextension and abuse.
Thus, Bush promised during last year's presidential campaign that "Help is on the way." His request to Congress is an attempt to make good on that promise.
Congress should approve his request. Then, if it is still in a cost-cutting mood, it should search out the real sources of waste in the defense budget.
As Citizens Against Government Waste points out, Congress itself is responsible for much of the wasteful spending in the Defense Department.
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