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A 6 page paper that focuses on the politics in military budgeting. The writer reports the $8.9 billion of "pork' projects one journalist reported in he 2004 military budget. Much of that amount went back to Senators' states for other projects - it was an election year. Other examples are reported. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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public agencies or nonprofit organizations, politics will play a strong role in the budget process. The higher the level of the government, the greater presence of politics. Just think about
the continuous conflict between democrats and republicans in a state congress or in our federal congress. Budgeting becomes focused on those politics rather than the needs of the people and
the country, as a whole. Wheeler (2004) discussed the 2004 budget for the Department of Defense - a whopping $416 billion appropriations bill was sent from the U.S. Congress to
President Bush. The President said it was essential "our armed forces have every tool they need to meet and defeat the threats of our time" (Wheeler, 2004). We are
in multiple wars, the one against terrorism and the "insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan" (Wheeler, 2004). Weve all heard the stories since the war in Iraq began - our troops
not having the equipment and supplies they need, their families purchasing such things as flack jackets and sending them to their loved ones fighting over there. A budget in excess
of $400 billion sure seems like it would get all that equipment and all those supplies to our troops but Wheeler (2004) says, not so. The "Congress has failed dismally
- and deliberately - to fulfill its constitutional mandates to raise and support armies and to provide and maintain a navy." It is a case of the pork barrel model.
All those funds will not go towards supporting military troops, a large part of it will go for other things. Wheeler (2004) accuses the members of Congress of "providing home-state
pork to impress voters in an election year" and they did so to get re-elected, not to support the military they are charged with protecting. Members of Congress took
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