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Bill Richardson has introduced a plan to cut wasteful spending in the Pentagon and use that money on education and health care.
From the Des Moines Register...
Richardson said Wednesday in an interview with The Des Moines Register that he wants to reduce the Pentagon's budget and modernize the military by eliminating what he describes as Cold War weapons systems designed to fight a long-extinct Soviet empire. Some of the savings would be used to bolster the military, but most of the money would be redirected to domestic programs, such as health care and education, he said.Richardson's plan is similar to what Iowans for Senisbile Priorities has been campaigning for.
Richardson's plan for reductions in military spending was praised by Peggy Huppert, executive director of Iowans for Sensible Priorities, an activist group that favors cutting the Pentagon budget while spending more on programs such as education, health care and infrastructure.We will see if Richardson's plan is enough to garner an endorsement from the group in the future.
"We think it's wonderful," Huppert said of Richardson's plan. "It's the most comprehensive and definitive statement from a campaign so far."
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This really comes as no surprise, since Richardson's political director in Iowa, Dave Rogers, came to the campaign directly from Iowans for Sensible Priorities. I'm convinced that this policy announcement, and the work leading up to it, was a big reason why Rogers came aboard Richardson's campaign this past June, although campaign spokesmen have specifically denied this.
In any case, Richardson's "sensible priorities" statements are a significant policy development in this campaign, and Richardson's campaign is to be congratulated.
~iPol: the Personal Pronoun, as applied to politics.
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