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WHO?S HURT BY FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS? The federal employee unions gave nearly $5 million to Democrat?

By Glenn Reynolds

WHO’S HURT BY FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS?

The federal employee unions gave nearly $5 million to Democratic House and Senate candidates between 2001 and the 2010 campaign, according to data cited by MAPLight from the Center for Responsive Politics compared to just over $1 million to Republicans.

In other words, Democrats got 82 percent of the campaign cash contributed by federal employee unions.

MAPLight points to another interesting aspect of this question, noting that contributions from defense industry firms are almost evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, though with a slight tilt in favor of the latter.

Since 2001, defense firms contributed more than $23.5 million to Republican incumbents, compared to just over $21.2 million to Democrats, a 52-47 percent division between the two parties.

Defense industry contributions are not infrequently assumed to be tilted very much in favor of Republicans who consistently more solidly in favor of bigger defense budgets than do Democrats.

We need these cuts to avoid bankruptcy. Somebody needs to remind the cuttees of all that “shared sacrifice” talk from before the election.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 23, 2011 (boomark / email).