Viewpoints: Despite a $1 Trillion Pentagon Budget, Our Veterans Are Being Neglected

Column: Despite a $1 trillion Pentagon budget, veterans are being neglected

This year, for the first time, the Pentagon’s budget topped $1 trillion. We’re told this is to “support the troops.” Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. While tens of thousands of veterans are homeless and hundreds of thousands are going hungry the Pentagon is wasting billions on things such as $1,500 coffee cups and $150,000 on soap dispensers. More than half of the Defense Department’s budget goes to private companies, not …

Viewpoints: Despite a $1 trillion Pentagon budget, our veterans are being neglected

This year, for the first time, the Pentagon’s budget topped $1 trillion. We’re told this is to “support the troops.”