Democracy the United States and japan. The Wilson Center and National History center cohosted this discussion. Its about 90 minutes. All right. I think well get started. Its 4 00 on a monday afternoon, which means its time for the washington history seminar. Welcome, everyone, to the Wilson Center. Welcome to this installment of the washington history seminar. Im christian oserman. I have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric arnesen from George Washington university. Im dlielighted to see so many you here on this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event today, so for those welcome to all of those who are viewing us at home. And i suggest you visit our website to learn more about the seminar and upcoming speakers. Both the National History center and the Wilson Center websites have information on this series. The washington history seminar, of course, is, as those of you who are regulars know, a collaborative effort of two organizations, the Wilson
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Discussion on defense spending. You are watching live coverage here on cspan. How do we decide how much the u. S. Should spend . I know about the federal budget but i am more confident comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity tax incentive, state local Tax Deductions and the Defense Budget. I called my colleague at brookings and put the question to him. How much should the u. S. Spend on defense . He said i just finished a 20,000 word answer to that question. So here we are. You can read all 20,000 words on our website but he has promised he will not try to read them all here. I want to start with a question i cant answer, how much does the u. S. Spend on defense . Can we get they wind up . The short answer is we spend a lot. There are a lot of ways to measure this but lets start with a few things. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget on the fiscal year. We spent about 900 billion on disk defense. 12 of all federal spending. You c
Discussion on defense spending. You are watching live coverage here on cspan. How do we decide how much the u. S. Should spend . I know about the federal budget but i am more confident comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity tax incentive, state local Tax Deductions and the Defense Budget. I called my colleague at brookings and put the question to him. How much should the u. S. Spend on defense . He said i just finished a 20,000 word answer to that question. So here we are. You can read all 20,000 words on our website but he has promised he will not try to read them all here. I want to start with a question i cant answer, how much does the u. S. Spend on defense . Can we get they wind up . The short answer is we spend a lot. There are a lot of ways to measure this but lets start with a few things. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget on the fiscal year. We spent about 900 billion on disk defense. 12 of all federal spending. You c
Discussion on defense spending. You are watching live coverage here on cspan. How do we decide how much the u. S. Should spend . I know about the federal budget but i am more confident comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity tax incentive, state local Tax Deductions and the Defense Budget. I called my colleague at brookings and put the question to him. How much should the u. S. Spend on defense . He said i just finished a 20,000 word answer to that question. So here we are. You can read all 20,000 words on our website but he has promised he will not try to read them all here. I want to start with a question i cant answer, how much does the u. S. Spend on defense . Can we get they wind up . The short answer is we spend a lot. There are a lot of ways to measure this but lets start with a few things. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget on the fiscal year. We spent about 900 billion on disk defense. 12 of all federal spending. You c