NPR ran a half-hour Talk of the Nation segment recently on the Deficit Commission's recommendations. The two discussants they brought in were both conservatives, but the conversation is worth listening to in order to hear what even conservatives are recommending given a military budget that has grown absurdly since 9/11/2001, so that nearly 1/2 of all federal discretionary spending is now directed to the military. You can listen to or read the NPR segment at:
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/15/131334547/deficit-commission-calls-for-defense-budget-cuts?sc=emaf
Of course, a substantial amount of whatever is taken out of the defense budget is going to have to go into deficit reduction, but a certain portion should be redirected into more projects like the solar thermal energy plant being built in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy. You can find out more about this promising effort, and link to a story about the accompanying environmental controversies, by going to http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2334 and reading Todd Woody's articles in Environment 360
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