"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Friday, December 7, 2012

Fiscal Cliff ? - Lets Get Real!

Shields and Brooks on PBS NewsHour this week were their usual erudite selves....but again I noted that in the entire "fiscal cliff" dicussion there was no mention of the real "gaping maw" at the bottom of the cliff -- the Defense budget which has doubled in the first decade of this century...to no discernible improvement on our military that I can see.  (Other than we have even more over-budget, non-working weapons systems than before).    

Still...an interesting and worthwhile discussion as always....


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