Comments for NYT Decides to Start Blaming Medicare and Social Security for Bad Weather at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.cepr.net Fri, 24 May 2013 03:08:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/nyt-decides-to-start-blaming-medicare-and-social-security-for-bad-weather#comment-19640 President Obama moved the spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from a supplementary authorization and put them into the regular military budget so much of the decline in military spending in the budget is due to ending the wars. More broadly, as our defense spending transitions from Cold War systems to modern conflicts we'll need less spending. From the CBO: "The growth in DoD’s costs would be less than the growth of the economy, so costs would decline as a share of gross domestic product (GDP). Spending for DoD’s base budget was 3.5 percent of GDP in 2010 and would decline to 3.0 percent of GDP in 2017 and to 2.5 percent in 2030." http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43428 The real issue is that Romney/Ryan are arbitrarily fixated on spending 4% of GDP on the military without any clear justification. - Robert Salzberg Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:06:41 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/nyt-decides-to-start-blaming-medicare-and-social-security-for-bad-weather#comment-19639 Why not just cite as a fact to be checked that baby boomers were the result of pent up demand for children after the war, so WWII itself caused the crowding out of today's Pentagon spending by the greatest generation who dared postpone having children until after the war and are socialists for doing it, hell bent on bleeding dry the Pentagon down the road with conspiratorial entitlements that crowd out entitlements to private military contractors. - Last Mover Wed, 17 Oct 2012 02:32:48 +0100