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was cut by a congress that maybe didn t really understand that that s what they were doing, that fight that started today is a fight where both the military and the congress now are fighting each other for the right to raise the defense budget. both sides of the fight want more spending on the military. that s the fight that we re about to have in washington. that s the two sides that were set up today. you want to cut defense, well i want to spend more on defense. oh, yeah, no, i want to spend more on defense, you re the one who wants to cut it. that s the fight we re now about to have in washington. and the question of whether there really will be ever a drawdown again, after an american war, that remains a question that is only discussed well outside of polite company. joining us, barney sfrank, former democratic congressman of massachusetts, longtime add vo kite for reducing american spending on the military. it s good to have you on the show. thank you for being here. thank you,

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hearings to taub about whether music really is pornography without the pictures and whether it should be treated as such. frank zappa testified in congress in 1985, called it an ill conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver benefits to children and infringes on the civil liberties of people who are not children. he was very articulate in making his case. he was actually kind of the hit of those hearings. particularly because of this amazing exchange with a florida senator named paula hawkins. behold. senator hawkins. you say you have four children? yes. pardon me? four children. have you ever purchased toys for those children? no, my wife does. well, i might tell you that if you were to go in a toy store which is very educational for

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it should be treated as such. frank zappa testified in congress in 1985, called it an ill conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver benefits to children and infringes on the civil liberties of people who are not children. he was very articulate in making his case. he was actually kind of the hit of those hearings. particularly because of this amazing exchange with a florida senator named paula hawkins. behold. senator hawkins. you say you have four children? yes. pardon me? four children. have you ever purchased toys for those children? no, my wife does. well, i might tell you that if you were to go in a toy store which is very educational for fathers, by the way, it s not a maternal responsibility to buy

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140225:05:14:00

over and above what congress voted to give them when they voted for the sequester. now, this got headlined today as the pentagon proposing huge new cuts to the military. what actually happened today is the pentagon fighting congress so they don t get cut so much. when congress voted for the sequester, they were voting for something that no one thought they would ever go through with. it was supposed to be impossible for the u.s. to cut defense spending alongside cuts of food stamps and education and all the other things congress is usually much happier to cut. it has become unimaginable to us that defense spending would really be cut significantly. and so now, today specifically, now, we are in this upsidedown world where a proposed drawdown after the longest wars in u.s. history is being greeted today both as a surprise and as kind of the end of the world. even after the end of the longest wars in u.s. history. the idea of a drawdown is somehow totally alien to us. and the fight by th

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just during the time of george w. bush was president, we more than doubled what we spend on the military. but today, pentagon proposed cutting that budget. sort of. by law, the size of the military and the military budget are both scheduled to shrink over the next few years and by a lot. congress already voted the army should shrink from 522,000 soldiers to 420,000. congress already voted that the marine corps should shrink from 190,000 marines to 175,000. that s already law. congress voted for that. scheduled to go into effect if nothing else happens. that s the sequester they voted for. what the military proposed today is reinstating some troops, holding on to 20,000, 30,000 more soldiers than congress voted to give them. money wise, it s the same deal. the military wants less of a cut. they want to add another $26 billion to their budget for next year. want to add over $100 billion to the year after that.

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