Defense Official: Obama Calling for Defense Budget Cuts

[Xenophon]

Ya, he vetoed that POS B-1 bomber. What a flop that plan has been. We should have listened to Jimmy

And the B-2, and 50% of the fleet train, and half the US navy warships, all of which cost us 5 times more to restore after he was gone.

You advocate listening to a fool.

Don't forget defunding NASA, which, through their research and necessities, brought us almost all of the new production the US has had in the past few decades (example, velcro, solid state electronics). Imagine where we would have been without his meddling!

The list is endless, you have to have an IQ in single digits to think Jimma should be listened too.

 

[elvis]

That so screams 'Jimma Carter'

Ya, he vetoed that POS B-1 bomber. What a flop that plan has been. We should have listened to Jimmy

And the B-2, and 50% of the fleet train, and half the US navy warships, all of which cost us 5 times more to restore after he was gone.

You advocate listening to a fool.

Agreed/
Where would the hostages from the embassy be? still in Teheran?

 

[editec]

The Obama administration has asked the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon's budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent -- about $55 billion -- a senior U.S. defense official tells FOX News.

Last year's defense budget was $512 billion. Service chiefs and planners will be spending the weekend "burning the midnight oil" looking at ways to cut the budget -- looking especially at weapons programs, the defense official said.

Some overall budget figures are expected to be announced Monday


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Anyone Surprised???

No.

But it's not enough of a cut.

We can piss away a trillion dollars in Iraq, but we don't have enough money to help the CITIZENS of the USA?!

Time to stop playing EMPIRE EARTH and time to start taking care of business AT HOME.

Pull our troops home, stop screwing around in scores of nations around the world and cut that fucking budget in half.

It's freaking obscene to waste so much money on this when our nation is in such dire financial straights.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Bring troops home and keep the military budget high.

We should have the best weapons, the best planes, the best of everything and all those toys and men should be stationed on our borders, off of our coasts and ports.

We then can watch in safety as the rest of the world implodes.

 

[WillowTree]

Bring troops home and keep the military budget high.

We should have the best weapons, the best planes, the best of everything and all those toys and men should be stationed on our borders, off of our coasts and ports.

We then can watch in safety as the rest of the world implodes.

 

[dilloduck]

Bring troops home and keep the military budget high.

We should have the best weapons, the best planes, the best of everything and all those toys and men should be stationed on our borders, off of our coasts and ports.

We then can watch in safety as the rest of the world implodes.

Unfortunately if the rest of the world implodes--we go with it.

 

[Annie]

Bring troops home and keep the military budget high.

We should have the best weapons, the best planes, the best of everything and all those toys and men should be stationed on our borders, off of our coasts and ports.

We then can watch in safety as the rest of the world implodes.

Unfortunately if the rest of the world implodes--we go with it.

Funny how people always miss that part.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Bring troops home and keep the military budget high.

We should have the best weapons, the best planes, the best of everything and all those toys and men should be stationed on our borders, off of our coasts and ports.

We then can watch in safety as the rest of the world implodes.

Unfortunately if the rest of the world implodes--we go with it.

Funny how people always miss that part.

I'm sure we could hold our own the point being our money, resources and blood should not be spent meddling in the affairs of other countries.

If a large portion of the world would rather live in the stone age or by medieval laws and philosophies, or would rather fight and bomb each other into oblivion then I say we let them.

 

[editec]

Bring troops home and keep the military budget high.

We should have the best weapons, the best planes, the best of everything and all those toys and men should be stationed on our borders, off of our coasts and ports.

We then can watch in safety as the rest of the world implodes.

You think the world will implode without us?

Every EMPIRE believes that, or at least tells its citizens that.

Empires come and go, amigo.

And here's a tip for you, too.

Bankrupt nations make really crappy Empires.

In case you haven't noticed it that's where our nation is currently headed.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Bring troops home and keep the military budget high.

We should have the best weapons, the best planes, the best of everything and all those toys and men should be stationed on our borders, off of our coasts and ports.

We then can watch in safety as the rest of the world implodes.

You think the world will implode without us?

Every EMPIRE believes that, or at least tells its citizens that.

Empires come and go, amigo.

And here's a tip for you, too.

Bankrupt nations make really crappy Empires.

In case you haven't noticed it that's where our nation is currently headed.

A large part of why we are bankrupt as you say is that we spend a huge portion of our money meddling in the affairs of other countries.

If we kept that money in the hands of the American people, you might find that we would be much better off.

 

[editec]

We won the cold war.

WE can stop pretending that we need to have the same level of forces to defend ourselves against terrorism.

In fact we ought to take some of the regular military investment and really invest it in intel and forces designed specifically to deal with terrorist threats.

But when the military budget walks into the room, all the oxygen gets sucked out of it.

 

[Chris]

Very good thread.

We have to take care of America. We need to bring the troops home and put them on the Mexican border. We need to drive electric cars and natural gas trucks. We need to develop clean energy and screw the Arabs.

 

[Orange_Juice]

That so screams 'Jimma Carter'

Ya, he vetoed that POS B-1 bomber. What a flop that plan has been. We should have listened to Jimmy

And the B-2, and 50% of the fleet train, and half the US navy warships, all of which cost us 5 times more to restore after he was gone.

You advocate listening to a fool.

All government waste, if you ask me

 

[Orange_Juice]

Ya, he vetoed that POS B-1 bomber. What a flop that plan has been. We should have listened to Jimmy

And the B-2, and 50% of the fleet train, and half the US navy warships, all of which cost us 5 times more to restore after he was gone.

You advocate listening to a fool.

Don't forget defunding NASA, which, through their research and necessities, brought us almost all of the new production the US has had in the past few decades (example, velcro, solid state electronics). Imagine where we would have been without his meddling!

LOL, ya, where would we be without those big government spin offs! Besides, your facts are just flat out wrong about Carter and NASA. He was the one that wanted its space mission to focus on making things like you listed, and to not go off in search of a mission to Mars or something else.

 

[editec]

Carter is turning out to be the Sybil of our age.

He saw what few of his fellow DEMS and even fewer of the Reps wanted to admit...

..that energy was going to be the greatest problem of our generation.

And FWIW, the decision by the FED to crush stagflation (something that in retrospect I think was a fairly good policy) was the root cause of the terrible recession that occured during his administration.

As POTUS, there was nothing he could do about the fact that the FED escalated the interest rates up to 21%.

 

[Chris]

Carter is turning out to be the Sybil of our age.

He saw what few of his fellow DEMS and even fewer of the Reps wanted to admit...

..that energy was going to be the greatest problem of our generation.

And FWIW, the decision by the FED to crush stagflation (something that in retrospect I think was a fairly good policy) was the root cause of the terrible recession that occured during his administration.

As POTUS, there was nothing he could do about the fact that the FED escalated the interest rates up to 21%.

You are right, but I disagree that the FED decision to attack "stagflation" was correct. It was a disaster.

What led us out of that mess was when the North Slope oil started flowing in the early 1980's.

The FED screwed up again by lowering interest rates too low after 9/11. That and the derivatives scheme led to the mess we are in now.

Now the FED has to act because we are facing an emergency.

 

[Gun Clingin']

I love the hippy posters on here.

 

[Terry]

I'm not surprised one bit. Usually the first thing that will get cut will be money to Department of Defense Schools (DoDS) They are always last to get money and never get what they were told they would get. There is always fat that can be trimmed but I fear this is just the begining of more cuts then Carter ever did. Time to design some high tech spit balls. LOL

 

[Gun Clingin']

I'm not surprised one bit. Usually the first thing that will get cut will be money to Department of Defense Schools (DoDS) They are always last to get money and never get what they were told they would get. There is always fat that can be trimmed but I fear this is just the begining of more cuts then Carter ever did. Time to design some high tech spit balls. LOL

I agree. There is some fat that can be trimmed but he's going too far with this. Obama ought to bring back that old weapon the mmilitary was working on that turns our enemies into homosexuals, drop a "happy bomb" on Afghanistan.

 

[DiveCon]

That so screams 'Jimma Carter'

Ya, he vetoed that POS B-1 bomber. What a flop that plan has been. We should have listened to Jimmy

are you fucking INSANE


nevermind, i already know you are