Subject: RE: Subject Worth Reading: Need for a Sustainable National Security Budget
From: "Arnie Miller" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:14:25 -0500

John- A very good article but we need to go the next step and enlist
Gates, the JCS and others to identify systems and programs that are no
longer necessary and push for real cuts in those budgets. I remember a
speech Ben Cohen gave at my son Michael's High School graduation. He
said, "It's like shampoo, I look in the mirror and realize I don't need
that much anymore." A

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From: John Podesta [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 12:03 PM
To: Arnie Miller
Subject: Subject Worth Reading: Need for a Sustainable National Security
Budget

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February 27 , 2009

 

In today's New York Times, Larry Korb and Sean Duggan make a strong
argument
<http://app.mx3.americanprogressaction.org/e/er.aspx?s=785&lid=43096&elq
=72ae3cb373b648a9a4a4362b53ddaaae>  that the Obama administration should
not decrease the budget for the Coast Guard, a critical part of our
national security force. While all other of the nation's military
services are set to see their budgets increase, in the President's
spending plan the Coast Guard budget will decline by three percent, to
$10.1 billion-smaller than the untested national missle defense program.

In recommmending a unified national security budget, Korb and Duggan
offer, at a time of constrained resources, an approach that would
increase transparency and enhance our national security.

I encourage you to read this editorial in today's paper.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/opinion/27korb.html?ref=opinion
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Best regards,

John D. Podesta

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