More on Defense component of W's proposed budget (courtesy dday at Digby)

dday over at Digby's Blog (Hullabaloo) has a nice, effectively snarky analysis of W's budget, with emphasis on the Defense component, There Can Never Be Wasteful Defense Spending.

But a larger sum still—$184 billion—is for what the Pentagon calls "major weapons systems." [...]

What efficiencies is the Pentagon taking to accommodate these technological risks? The "Overview" section of the Pentagon's budget document contains a section called "Program Terminations." It reads, in its entirety: "The FY 2009 budget does not propose any major program terminations." (emphasis mine [dday's])

. The excerpt above is quoted by dday from Fred Kaplan's Slate article, What's Really in the U.S. Military Budget?.

dday goes on to observe that

"They are crackerjack over at the Pentagon. Apparently everything they make can pinpoint a terrorist at 2,000 yards, even the submarines!

We spend more on defense than every other country combined for absolutely no reason, and in fact, this is the great hole that is sinking our budget.
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It'd be nice to see a little more talk about the defense budget, which is almost a QUARTER of the entire budget for FY2009. I recognize that this would require someone in the traditional media to read."

Maybe if more folks starting talking about this, someone will notice.

Stop the madness!