I think defense spending should be kept at current levels or increased. According to Richard Perle, in 1981, after ten years of neglect in which defense spending declined by three percent a year had caused a multilane of deficiencies. A massive backlog of crucial maintenance; low pay and morale among our men and women in uniform; shortages of tanks, aircraft, missiles and basic munitions were the situations the United States had gotten itself into. The United States was now ill prepared to meet the challenge of other countries growing military power. .
In 1981, under the Reagan administration, with the support in Congress, set about correcting the deficiencies. The restoration of American strength paid a dividend for larger than anyone imagined and was instrumental in persuading the Soviet leadership that the achievement of military superiority was beyond the reach of the failing Soviet economy and it was key to bringing the Cold War to an end.
According to Anthony Cordesman, even after the lessons learned from pre-Reagan, the United States fell back into the same trap of less defense spending in the late 1990's and look what happened, September 11, 2001. In my opinion, what happened in New York on September 11, 2001 is a direct result of years of less defense spending, and the cutbacks in the budgets of the CIA and FBI as well. The national defense is the first task of the federal government. Too often, defense spending is seen as a competitor to domestic spending. Liberals say that more money for guns means less for education and health care. But our ability to protect our lives, our independence, and ourselves is precondition for providing any of these other things.
Yet even after the reminder of September 11, 2001, we are still short-changing defense. President Bush's proposed $48 billion dollars increase in defense spending for next year falls short of our military needs.
None of the barracks had plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind. ... Army blankets, cots, and small heating stoves were the only furnishings provided by the government. ... Food was provided by the government for the evacuee residents. ... Medical care was also provided by the government free of charge to all residents. ... Simple dental and optical services were also provided. ...
A brief summary of what the railroads did for the settlement of the Great Plains: most importantly and most obviously, they provided a fast safe mode of travel for people to actually get there in order to live. They also provided jobs for people to work on laying the rails and maintaining and driving the cars, albeit these jobs did not pay well, they were still jobs. ... However none of these things would have been possible had it not been for the railroads. ...
Stimuli This experiment was in a subject design as the same group of participants was tested under the same conditions; the independent variable which was manipulated was the presentation of distractor words which were either threat, neutral or none type/ condition. ... The 9 lists were organized into blocks of 3 lists (none, threat, neutral). ... For each word, participants recorded their response as "Yes" indicating that the participants remembered seeing the specific word from the DRM lists or "No" indicating that the participants did not study the word from the provide...
Shakespeare continually makes plays on words his works, but In Much Ado About Nothing, none impacted the play as profoundly as his pun on "nothing." ... False observations and misinterpretations provided the basis for much of the plot. ... Much Ado About Nothing is a play in which many literary features are present, but by far, none were as prominent as this seemingly "simple" play on words. This pun was significant to this literary feature because it provided the sole basis from which all action of the play derived its source. ...
He provided a few examples which I found interesting on why we should practice the death penalty. ... As you can see, the death penalty will equilze the murderer to the victim, so that none of them are breathing none of them are eating, etc. ...
Agencies such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Works Progress Administration (WPA), and Public Works Act (PWA) created jobs for none other than young white men, excluding women and blacks to a large degree. These agencies provided so-called jobs to men, though they were not considered jobs to critics of the program, who called them boondoggling jobs. ... Organized labor provided job security which limited productivity and created a sense of security in workers but also made them slack off a little bit. ... It provided a retirement fund, unemployment insurance, and welfare grants. ... ...
Mexican American War- "Polk's War Whigs": invited people to Mexico to become Mexicans, none did switch to Mexican. ... Us Border - Mexican Border Wilmot proviso The Wilmot Proviso, 1846 Provided, territory from That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the p...
The window provided no light at all. I decided to extend my search to the flaw above it was more pleasant than the last I did not need the candle as there was a window but a small one none the less. ...
The monks and nuns in this period provided for the spiritual needs of those in power. ... They also provided most of the education for the upper classes. ... Life on the manor was dull but secure because when other lords would attack the lord would take them all of his serfs and peasants into his castle with giant walls and none of the lords could get inside. ...
On the plains, wild cattle provided indigenous peoples with abundant supplies of meat and hides. ... Of all the animals exchanged, none carried a greater impact than the horse. ... The New World provided the Old with many other useful plants including dyes, medicinal plants, variations of cotton, and tobacco. ...