Pentagon Spending and Closing Bases
Remember the saying, “Don’t wish for something, you might get it!” The people who wish for a peace dividend are now crying about the closing of military bases. The government has never paid even $1 for a gun, a bomb, a plane or for a shipyard. Tax money is used to pay 20 million people to build and to deploy guns, bombs, airplanes and to pay people to man shipyards. Any defense spending cut means unemployment for someone. The people who design airplanes and air-defense systems are not the same people who would build a school or hospital.
The congressmen who have complained most about the defense budget are the same ones who are against closing any military installation in their districts.
JAMES T. HUMBERD
La Quinta
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