Obama: Cutting Social Welfare to Save the Pentagon

The administration's stated budget priorities

By Glenn Greenwald

'Just think about that for a minute. We have a Democratic administration installed in power after millions of liberals donated large amounts of their time and money to help elect them. Yet here we have a top official in the President's cabinet demanding cuts to Medicare and Social Security in order to protect the military budget from further reductions. That's the position of the Democratic administration.'

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/05/military