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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 8:30 am Gather at statue of Columbus in front
of Union Station Washington, D.C.
Demonstrate at House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's Speech on the Fiscal
Crisis http://www.thirdway.org/events/26
9:00 a.m. The Columbus Room
http://www.unionstationevents.com/sites/colmbshl.html
Rep. Hoyer has opposed spending money except on wars and the military
and who supports dumping another $33 billion into escalating
Afghanistan. Reportedly he will support cuts to the military (or what he
calls "defense") but how much and what about the wars?
Bring posters! Bring the message: JOBS NOT WARS!
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FROM HUFF POST: EXCLUSIVE: HOYER TO CALL FOR DEFENSE SPENDING CUTS AS
PART OF DEFICIT REDUCTION - Steny Hoyer gives an address at the Columbus
Room at Union Station tomorrow morning at 9 am. A main focus of the
speech will be on the need to make defense spending a major part of any
discussion about deficit reduction. "Any conversation about the deficit
that leaves out defense spending is seriously flawed before it begins,"
he'll say, according to an excerpt provided to HuffPost Hill. "Our
defense leaders, including Secretary Gates, have repeatedly pointed out
that paying for programs we don't need only makes our country weaker in
the long run. Our defense spending cannot be above careful scrutiny and
analysis of alternatives. In an important speech last month, Secretary
Gates drew from the legacy of President Eisenhower, who held that "the
United States...could only be as militarily strong as it was
economically dynamic and fiscally sound." He added: "the proverbial wall
has been brought to our back"; as a result, all the parts of our defense
establishment must "take a hard, unsparing look at how they operate."
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