by Dave Patterson | Jun 13, 2020 | Articles, Business News, Intelligence, Military Affairs, Politics, Social Issues
The first switch on the congressional Department of Defense (DoD) money machine is turned on. Senators Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Jack Reed (D-RI) released a statement announcing that the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) had completed its work on the Fiscal Year (FY)...
by Andrew Moran | Apr 26, 2020 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Healthcare, Social Issues
Long before Coronavirus infected 500,000 Americans and forced the federal government to mortgage the future for short-term survival, Social Security was already sick and on life support. Over the years, the bean counters have sounded the alarm on the tens of trillions...
by Dave Patterson | Apr 26, 2020 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Intelligence, Military Affairs, Politics
Building the Defense Budget Tired of binge-watching Netflix? Exhausted by trying to find the progressive symbolism in “The Handmaid’s Tale”? Welcome to the intriguing, action-packed world of the Department of Defense budget. Be amazed as the Army,...
by Andrew Moran | Apr 17, 2020 | Articles, Business News, Economic Affairs News, Politics, Social Issues
In the good old days of January 2020, fiscal conservatives and libertarians were clutching their pearls over the return to unsustainable trillion-dollar federal deficits. The penny-pinchers, the tightwads, the cheapskates, and the cheeseparers were handwringing about...
by Dave Patterson | Apr 16, 2020 | Articles, Intelligence, Military Affairs, Politics, Social Issues
Will the Coronavirus pandemic change the way the Department of Defense (DoD) operates? Recently, media commentators have direly predicted what COVID-19 will do to human existence as we know it; even the well-respected Henry Kissinger in the Wall Street...