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Make sense. it doesn't take into consideration sensitive areas. it only exempts veterans' benefits and so it's not smart cutting. so people that are worried about the pentagon cutting and domestic cuts because it's designed to be so irresponsible and so reckless congress and president wouldn't let it go through. now there are no ideas on the table that are going to get traction to create a compromise to stop it from going through. >> shep: sit your sense they have to come up with something. politicians realizes this can't be. a.b.put it very well, when this is just stupid, that even that bunch...

Government spending. half of that, $600 billion for defense. a grossly disproportional amount for defense but there it is. >> neil: over ten years. >> the problem with it is they are across-the-board cuts. they don't distinguish between good programs and bad programs, hardware and people. just an across-the-board cut and what you have seen is a lot of republicans who are justly opposed to that kind of cutting essentially posing all pentagon cutting and what i was saying in the piece today is that just because the sequestration cuts are bad doesn't mean that the defense budget is sacrosanct. it...

About china's military buildup, jen per? >> reporter: well, i would say very concerned, jon. in fact, what they are hooking and what they point to is the surge in galloping defense expenditure. in the last 20 years, china's defense budget has gone up by 464%. compare that to u.s. defense spending which has risen in the same period of time by just 30%. and with the pentagon cutting back and china continuing to invest about 10%, their budgets are going up by 10% a year, this has people concerned. this terms of submarines, china has bought 30 submarines in the past decade, the u.s. navy, in compa...