The Amazing Shrinking Defense Budget and Other Stories

• The defense budget may have to shrink (horrors!) and the military may not be able to get all the toys it wants (perdition!) because money is kind of tight in the world.

  Not everyone agrees. Opinion pollsters say defense often tops the list of areas where the public would like to see cuts, while fatigue over the last decade's wars makes new overseas commitments hard to sell.

  [ETA: via Obsidian Wings]
  
• Mills River Progressive on Mr. Romney's plans for the American people who are not rich.  With video.  (Daisy got a picture at the Asheville Comics Expo of a gent in a Palpatine/Vader '12 t-shirt that is apropos here--fifth from the top.)
• Video (no transcript, not captioned), The Age of Uncertainty, ep 2 with John Kenneth Galbraith, at Naked Capitalism.  Social Darwinism, "moral" underpinning thereof.  A lot of it sounds very familiar...  [ETA:  Other episodes can be accessed once this one is played or at YouTube.  Ep 7 ("The Mandarin Revolution") is of particular interest.  Keynes and the Great Depression.  Need I say more?]