The Mother Jones article
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/pentagon-budget-deal-charts-cuts
The only people that Senator Patty Murray and Rep Paul Ryan rode to the rescue of, was crony Corporations, financial speculators and banksters.
A few thousand people will benefit from the budget deal.
Over 300 million Americans will be worse off.
The real cost of the Afgan & Iraq wars is over $5tn and still rising. Not the $1.5tn quoted - that's just the official costs from the Pentagon and all sorts of costs have been hidden elsewhere.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/05/real-cost-of-afghan-and-iraq-wars.html
Military spending is currently $1.2tn a year, not the $652bn quoted.
All sorts of military spending has been hidden in other budgets.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/03/military-spending-1962-to-date.html
The Pentagon could find the sequester cuts out of petty cash.
Pentagon waste is far more than this.
Lots of examples of Pentagon waste are detailed in here.
Over $500bn of annual Pentagon waste.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/11/it-is-very-easy-to-cut-1tn-from-federal.html
And finally the budget deal :-
The House has approved a crony Corporatist budget deal that will wreck America and the budget that should be on the table
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-house-votes-on-crony-corporatist.html
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