Vice President Joe Biden is struggling to come up with bipartisan deal to cut over a $1 trillion from the deficit because Republican’s refuse to support any revenue increases and Democrats are refusing to cut Medicare.
All this talk about reducing spending, yet neither the Democrats or the Republicans want to talk about the huge hole our wars are blowing in the budget.

Double talk is not new in Washington, but it is never clearer than when we are simultaneously talking about deficit reduction and a continued presence in Afghanistan.

The American people think the United States should not be involved in the current civil war in Libya, by an overwhelming majority. According the a new CBS News poll only 30 percent of the country believe we are doing the right thing in Libya while 59 percent believes we shouldn’t have been involved.

When deciding how to move forward with our roughly $100 billion a year war in Afghanistan, President Obama apparently didn’t even take into consideration the issue of cost at least according to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
Apparently the position of our government that when it comes to saving the lives of regular Americans it will only be done if it can done on a tight budget but when it comes to killing foreign people cost is no obj

An overwhelming majority–59 percent–of the American people think that with Osama bin Laden dead, it is time to bring our troops home from our nearly decade-long war in Afghanistan according to the newest Gallup poll. I don’t know which of the two great absurdities about this situation is more amazing to me. The fact that [...]

I’ve been told that, after nine years, the reason we must continue to spend billions fighting in Afghanistan is to prevent it from again “becoming a safe haven for terrorists.” Alternately, I’ve also been told we can’t pull out of Afghanistan because that could destabilize Pakistan and allow it to become a “safe haven for [...]

In an op-ed for the New Hampshire Union Leader, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney attacked President Obama for a “peacetime spending binge,” as pointed out by Greg Sargent. From the Op-ed: Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime [...]

Yesterday, army specialist Jeremy Morlock was sentenced to 24 years for taking part in a “kill team” that would slaughter Afghan civilians for fun, and then take trophy photos with their victims. From Der Spiegel: Jeremy Morlock, a 22-year-old army specialist, is part of a group of five soldiers accused of killing innocent civilians out [...]

The Hill is reporting that the cost of our latest war military action in Libya could effectively wipe out all the deficit reduction House Republicans are trying to squeeze of out of cuts to domestic programs. U.S. military operations in Libya could wipe out a significant chunk of the budget cuts won by congressional Republicans [...]

The myth is that somehow there is a Social Security “crisis” because the program is merely fully funded for roughly the next 29 years and after that point the amount of revenue brought in by the payroll tax will be about 20 percent less than the value of benefits meant to be paid out. The [...]