Cheap Hawks
(Cheap Hawks) There has been something of a tacit understanding between Democrats and Republicans on the matter of government spending. Republicans want to protect defense spending and allows Democrats a certain level of social engineering. For each Party, these are the sacred cows and any amount of outlay justifies whatever expenditure determined. But now, after the drunken sailor spending over the last two years and the national debt has ballooned to over $30 trillion, such devil may care loose cash might be coming to an end. Out of necessity. One of the first things that happens in a new Congress is the determination of the Rules package and included were proposals to limit defense spending. If the Majority House Republicans in the 118th Congress are truly committed to curbing spending, then all line-items, including the Pentagon, must come under review. Now, Republicans, with their donors from the big contractors, the Boeing's, the Lockheed Martin's and so on, that employ ...