The House approves a defense budget of $649 billion for 2012, an increase of $17 billion from this year. Attempts to lower the budget failed, with one of the only successes being lowering funding for military marching bands from $320 to $200 million. But even this cut was challenged because even marching bands are apparently vital to our national security.
Meanwhile, tuition at the University of California is likely to increase by another 9.6%. This is in addition to an approved 8% increase to make up for a $500 million cut to UCs by the California state government.
Very disappointing
Yeah I dont understand why no one is proposing cuts to the defense budge. We spend more than anyone in the world on defense. Plus, imagine if we stopped the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I find it so odd how our federal government invests so much into defense which mostly helps the private sectors in the military business while we still have homeless students in our colleges? When did weapons become more important than basic needs?