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Duncan Hunter is wrong, Congress doesn’t know better than the military what the military needs

By Tom Rogan
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Duncan Hunter is wrong, Congress doesn’t know better than the military what the military needs

On Friday’s episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., offered a ridiculous rationale for why Congress spends so much more on certain U.S. military programs than the Pentagon actually requests it to spend.

Maher asked Hunter “Isn’t that socialism when you’re just making things just to give jobs to people?”

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