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It's really not lip service. The budget sequestration deal in 2011 resulted in 10% across the board cuts in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_b
by knowtheory 10y ago
It's really not lip service.
The budget sequestration deal in 2011 resulted in 10% across the board cuts in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_sequestration_in_2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_sequestra...
Likewise, if you look at how Congressional Republicans responded to the Obama Administration's request for funding for Zika research you'll see the same thing. The answer was both "no" and "why don't you divert research funds from Ebola to Zika research if you want it so badly" (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/16/congress-vote-zika-funding-bills-fall-far-short-obamas-request/84445308/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/16/congr... )
Budgets have been cut. Not in ways anyone would ever want, but to say that they're not have an impact is not correct.
- dragonwriter 10y agoThose weren't neocons driving those cuts (neocons position in the Republican Party -- and thus national politics -- peaked under Bush and rapidly receded after he left office.)
- ancap 10y agoOne point of correction is that neocons are in both major US political parties and are know chiefly by their [chicken-]hawk-ish foreign policy.
- dragonwriter 10y agoThere are few, if any, neoconservatives in the Democratic Party (there are hawkish neoliberal internationalists in both parties, though, and the distinctions between those and neoconservatives are fairly fine.)
- mason240 10y agoHillary is a neocon.