Just saw it on the TV.
Good thing we have all this money for condoms and bee insurance in the Porkulus!
Just saw it on the TV.
Good thing we have all this money for condoms and bee insurance in the Porkulus!
Why should the Pentagon be any different from any other dept to be cut?Originally Posted by OklahomaTuba
Agreed on the porkulus though.
Cause its the last thing we need with 2 wars going on.
They should be ramping up spending IMO. Gives folks jobs in the military, in the manufacturing sector, engineering sector, and makes the world a safer place in general.
The fact that ACORN and illegal immigrants get a bailout and our military doesn't is F'king stupid.
And how many other depts are getting a cut BTW??
Dept. of education gets 2 times its budget in the Porkulus.
You do realize that a 10% cut takes it way, way down to around it's 2007 budget, right?
Boomer Sooner
Sounds like we got one too many wars going on.
Meanwhile back at the cave....
So NOW The One is worried about saving some money???
Gotta pay for those "tax cuts" for people who don't pay taxes some how, huh??
Seriously what kind of ****wit cuts the defense budget with troops deployed and more going to Afghanistan???
The Iraq and Afghanistan funding does not come from money allocated to the DoD, it's an appropriation requested by the White House to Congress.
To add, the DoD has budget descepencies that would make the Dept of Education or Energy blush. I'm not naive and realize there are things in the DoD that should not and do not see the light of day, however they had more than a trillion dollars worth of unsupported entries, which is inexcusable. If you don't like I wouldn't blame Obama, he didn't create a unitary executive command structure for defense spending, he inherited it. You reap what you sow.
Boomer Sooner
Didn't jimmy carter take that same course of action when he was president? That and cutting CIA were his too biggest goals.
How much money are we talking about here? How much is 10%?
about eleventy-trillion and 25 cent!
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Fool got his can kicked after taking down our military, while simultaneously taking the mortgage interest rate to over 20%, performing equally well in both the domestic and international arenas.
Put a lid on it! Kiss it goodbye. We gave it away, and apparently thought it made sense to do so.
we are all military keynesians now
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174884
Last edited by SoonerProphet; 1/31/2009 at 09:38 AM.
Seeing as defense is actually a requirement of the FED and education isn't, let's just get rid of the education part at the federal level.
There he goes again bring up that ole tattered document that is irrelevant in an enlightened society.
God, how I hate the 21st century.
OleVet Posse - dung slinger
Free Booze and Spam . What else could a Man want?
Let's hope they ramp up the State Departments budget with the money saved.
It's funny that some of you still don't understand why things like 09/11 happened.
while i have my own doubts about centralized federal education directives, those same doubts spread to the defense bureaucracy and its own very well known innefficiencies. afterall, centralized planning is still centralized planning.
btw, "promote the general welfare", is also part of our grand charter.
A hooker for all Americans would promote general mental well being so let's do it!
God, how I hate the 21st century.
OleVet Posse - dung slinger
Free Booze and Spam . What else could a Man want?
letting me to buy a stryker apc would go along way in promoting the common defense, and make my commute much more fun so let's do it!
what is your point?
My point is those four words you quote can be interpreted in a million ways, you just proved it.
God, how I hate the 21st century.
OleVet Posse - dung slinger
Free Booze and Spam . What else could a Man want?
So what is his point, should we disband the military?
If he thinks that we currently have a "huge standing army", then he's letting his agenda show.Its government no longer even attempts to reduce the ruinous expenses of maintaining huge standing armies
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