Richard Kogan Quotes
There was a consensus for more spending for the military; it was just a question of how much. You could say the President got more [extra spending] in part because of the political climate after Sept. 11, but [that's] speculative...
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The administration's forthcoming budget is expected to have approximately $200 billion in missing costs in the fifth year... Once these missing costs are taken into account, the deficit is seen as being in the range of $500 billion in 2009, or around 3.5 percent of GDP. That is not close to cutting the deficit in half.
- Richard Kogan
