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February 01, 2009
Defense Official: Obama Calling for Defense Budget Cuts
Defense Official: Obama Calling for Defense Budget Cuts
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.
Obama met Friday at the White House with a small group of military advisers, including Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman, and Gen. Jim Jones, National Security Council chairman.
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Wild Thing's comment.........
So much for the latest and greatest body armor, armored vehicles or what is pertinent to the needs of our military. The left never has had the troops interests at heart . Even if it is a war that are all for. They just think somehow our troops will BYOG (bring your own gun) to the fight.
Clinton made a ton of cut backs in our military and that is one of the reasons President Bush had to spend money to make sure our troops had what they needed. And then Harry Reid, Pelosi, Murtha ( traitors all) no other word for it they bitched about the cost of the war. Yep Obama will will do what Clinton did, stop making new arms, stop developing new technology and he will pull our troops out of all battle zones and hand them over to the UN or use them for “The good of humanity”, like building roads, bridges, hospitals, etc,, in Africa, and other poor countries.
Oh, and Michelle will have them waiting on tables at White House dinners and serving the President and his family, like Hillary did.
I have posted before how Obama has said he wants to increase troop level in Afghanistan . But what are they going to shoot with ....spitballs? Remember Zell Miller and what he said in his his keynote convention speech, delivered September 2004 at the GOP convention, when he criticized John Kerry's Senate voting record, claiming that Kerry's votes against bills for defense and weapon systems indicated support for weakening U.S. military strength.
"The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40 percent of the bombs in the first six months of Enduring Freedom. The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq. The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Khadafi's Libyan MIGs over the Gulf of Sidra. The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora. The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War. The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's Capital and this very city after 9/11. I could go on and on and on: against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein's scud missiles over Israel; against the Aegis air-defense cruiser; against the Strategic Defense Initiative; against the Trident missile; against, against, against. This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces? U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?"
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at February 1, 2009 04:55 AM
Comments
This is the one department you DON'T cut!!!
Who's going to save your sorry ass when they attack us again? Who's going to say, "Mr. President, I'm a Marine and I'm here to help you." even though he's thinking, "EWW, yuck. Now I gotta go save that village idiot's life."
He has no idea what the military is all about. He's never been there. Does he even have a draft card?
He's spitting in the face of every American family who waits anxiously each week for a letter, an email, a blog or video phone call just to know their family member is doing okay.
Posted by: Lynn at February 1, 2009 06:42 AM
This idiot is not going to "cut the mustard". He is not hit to lead a cub scout troop in lower Chicago, let alone OUR country.
This all reminds me of the movie "Glory"...
Colonel Robert G. Shaw: So what do you want to do?
Black Private Trip: Don't know, sir.
Colonel Robert G. Shaw: It stinks, I suppose.
Black Private Trip: Yeah, It stinks bad. And we all covered up in it too. Ain't nobody clean. Be nice to get clean, though.
Posted by: Steve Gaston at February 1, 2009 08:39 AM
Happy Black History Month Obama Been Lyin!
MLK Day (Jan.) + February + Kwanzaa = 36 days?
That's December, January & February....?
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at February 1, 2009 08:45 AM
Obama told us during the campaign that he was going to severely cut defense. We know he wants about 5 billion of that 55 billion given to ACORN as a reward for the underhanded deeds they did to get his elected.
Posted by: BobF at February 1, 2009 09:51 AM
He's cutting the defense budget, he's closing Gitmo, he's re-instituting the Wall between CIA and FBI, Waterboarding is out as an interrogation technique, Leon Panetta is incharge of the CIA. Penatta's statement, 'he would not use waterboarding even if an attack was to happen next week'...He's setting us up as a target.
Posted by: Mark at February 1, 2009 10:12 AM
Some of us Very Old People remember reading the Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly. One day Pogo looked across the swamp and uttered words that have gone down in History, "We have met the enemy and he is us." We have our house Muslim now. We don't need any more enemies.
Posted by: horace at February 1, 2009 10:33 AM
How about Obama cuts the White House budget by 10%. And also the Congressional budget.
If the Defense Budget is cut by 10% this year, will Obama cut by another 10% next year, and the years after that? Oh, that's right. Obama has promised us a civilian security corps of some sort. I guess Black Panthers and Black muslims. Oh well, at least I will have some targets to shoot at.
Buy ammo!
Posted by: TomR at February 1, 2009 11:17 AM
I wouldn't put it past him to dissolve the Military altogether. He could then use money for increasing the power of the Waco Brownshirts (aka The BATFE) along with other Federal Agencies. Hell I also wouldn't put it past him to go one step further. Dissolve Congress the Supreme Court and State Governments and make them all federal districts create his own military force and use it as his body guards and to abuse and kill Americans and National Security be damned.
I know a tyrant when I see one and...yeah (points finger at soviet-style "hope" portrait of "the messiah"). Oh, everything I just said is what Generalissimo Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna did in the 1830's.
REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
Posted by: JohnE PFC U.S. Army at February 1, 2009 12:24 PM
They'll probably say the defense budget cuts and other vastly leftist measures are necessary for a quick and expedient recovery to the economy. "The Economy" It's their excuse for the next 40 years of the obama presidency (that's a very dark joke with some degree of truth).
"No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency." Theodore Roosevelt "The Strenuous Life"
Posted by: JohnE PFC U.S. Army at February 1, 2009 02:03 PM
Damn straight-REMEMBER THE ALAMO! My husband had one relative die at the Alamo, who followed his cousin their to fight for Freedom--that was Sam Houston.
I think we need to get a bit less cordial than the dummys are used to.
Posted by: Lynn at February 1, 2009 03:07 PM
Those that still think The United States was wrong to go into Iraq and depose Saddam (obama included), and the environmentalists who claim that we as Americans are killing the planet (obama included) are mostly one in the same IMO.
Have they really forgotten this? If so, that is trully sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V6I9uAcHAY&feature=PlayList&p=BAABCBB073C6E254&index=0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrfmhUoMGK4&feature=PlayList&p=BAABCBB073C6E254&index=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYky_7UhEB0&feature=PlayList&p=BAABCBB073C6E254&index=2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfUJAnrskuQ&feature=PlayList&p=BAABCBB073C6E254&index=3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeXHij3Q-Ag&feature=PlayList&p=BAABCBB073C6E254&index=4
Posted by: JohnE PFC U.S. Army at February 1, 2009 04:34 PM
In addition to Barack Obama's vows to cut the military budget we have the Democrat controlled Congress with their own plans to cut defense spending by an even greater 25 percent amount.
"Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said Democrats will push for a stimulus package after the November election, and called for a package reducing defense spending by 25 percent while saying Congress will "eventually" raise taxes."
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/great_news_barney_frank_says_d.html
"And then there is the candidate who early this year recorded an ad for Caucus for Priorities, a far-left outfit that wants to cut 15% of the Pentagon's budget in favor of "education, healthcare, job training, alternative energy development, world hunger [and] deficit reduction." "
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122515034714574183.html
Can we take them at their word? To quote a famous Alaska governor. You Betcha!
Posted by: Les at February 1, 2009 04:55 PM
Just got back from the Tanner gun show in Denver. This administration has sure increased gun show sales but the shelves of the big box outdoors stores are almost empty of ammo.
Posted by: horace at February 1, 2009 05:38 PM
He wants to cut the military at the same time he says we must have his economic stimulas bill which will grow government??
Posted by: Bob A at February 1, 2009 07:50 PM
Lynn, I agree so much, this one area should have open funding and give them all they need.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:33 AM
Steve Gaston, thanks for that from "Glory" good point!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:35 AM
Darth, LOL yes I wonder if they will extend that now to all year.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:37 AM
BobF, your right he did and he is getting pressure from the other lefties to keep his word too. But I am sure he loves keeping his word on this one.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:39 AM
Mark, exactly, he might as well just paint a huge target symbol across our country.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:40 AM
Horace, great comment and thanks for the Pogo referrence.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:42 AM
Tom, hahaha Love it, yesss at least this gives a person targets to shoot at.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:44 AM
JohnE PFC U.S. Army, that is one thing God help us I don't think Obama can ever do to dissolve the military. I am hoping the more he gets the information that a President gets informed about of all the many attacks attempted on our country he will see how important our military is, he might not want to spend money on them but I hope at least he will know he cannot do without them. Does that make any sense? haha
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:48 AM
Lynn, with your family history in the military this has to really outrage your family. Our country owes them so much.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:50 AM
JohnE PFC U.S. Army, WOW thanks for those videos.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:51 AM
Les, thank you somuch for those things. I agree......
"Can we take them at their word? To quote a famous Alaska governor. You Betcha!"
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:52 AM
Horace, thank you so much. I have not been to a gun show in such a long time. I was wondering how they were doing when we read so much about gun and ammo sales now.
BIG thank you!
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:55 AM
Bob A., it sure is crazy, he is all scattered all over the place and signing his executive orders like a kid in a candy store.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 2, 2009 12:56 AM
