Obama Wants to Increase Military Spending More Than House GOP, In Times of Budget Cutting????

I cannot believe this insanity, I am disgusted beyond words.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/06/gop-boost-pentagon-budget-domestic-slashed_n_891205.html

WASHINGTON -- As it considers steep cuts to domestic programs in an effort to slash the deficit, the House is set to consider a defense spending bill on Wednesday that increases the Pentagon's budget by $17 billion.

The Defense Department appropriations bill includes $530 in base Pentagon spending, which is $8 billion less than President Obama's request for fiscal year 2012. There's an additional $118.6 billion for overseas contingency operations -- a $39 billion drop, reflecting the expected drawdown in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Republicans announced in May that they were going to try to cut $30 billion from federal agencies' operating budgets in order to deal with the growing deficit.

While the Pentagon isn't getting all the money the Obama administration would like it to receive, it's still in a significantly stronger position than many other government agencies. If the Pentagon gets its full $17 billion increase, that means that domestic agencies have to absorb $47 billion in cuts.

PLEASE GOD - GIVE US A PRIMARY CHALLENGER TO MAKE HIM ANSWER TO THE LEFT!

I don't want him to lose the primary, I don't want him to lose the election, but I want him to debate a REAL liberal and answer questions, not from FoxNews, but from someone like BERNIE SANDERS.

Let them eat bullets!

Police State in progress. When will the unrest ensue?

Accident or on purpose? Don't entertain conspiracies!

It is just the Military Industrial Complex asking Obama..."Who's your daddy"...and he had better say you.

The President was a robot and Candidate Obama was held hostage and broke free. Dang it!

This guy in office now, he ain't one of us. He just isn't.

Mayhem at White House as newly-freed Candidate Obama lays siege against Robot Obama

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PB

would like to compare

thanks

cuts to social programs.

very soon, your only hope for a job will be with the military.

maybe that's their end goal.

Who needs a draft when you've got one by default? It's either that or be a slave to corporate America in one of the prison camps. Hell, they make military stuff, too! It's a whole new paradigm! :puke:

ps-I've loved your pic for a while, JM. What is it?

Who the flipper of the bird exactly is, not sure.

:wtf:

PB

The US military spends as much in 23 days as NASA spends in a year - and that's when we're not fighting a war.

:(

I am now getting to the 75-80% mark.

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a neo-con?

Obama revealed: A moderate Republican
By Ezra Klein, Published: April 25

"America is mired in three wars. The past decade was the hottest on record. Unemployment remains stuck near 9 percent, and there’s a small, albeit real, possibility that the U.S. government will default on its debt. So what’s dominating the news? A reality-television star who can’t persuade anyone that his hair is real is alleging that the president of the United States was born in Kenya.

Perhaps this is just the logical endpoint of two years spent arguing over what Barack Obama is — or isn’t. Muslim. Socialist. Marxist. Anti-colonialist. Racial healer. We’ve obsessed over every answer except the right one: President Obama, if you look closely at his positions, is a moderate Republican of the early 1990s. And the Republican Party he’s facing has abandoned many of its best ideas in its effort to oppose him.

If you put aside the emergency measures required by the financial crisis, three major policy ideas have dominated American politics in recent years: a plan that uses an individual mandate and tax subsidies to achieve near-universal health care; a cap-and-trade plan that attempts to raise the prices of environmental pollutants to better account for their costs; and bringing tax rates up from their Bush-era lows as part of a bid to reduce the deficit. In each case, the position that Obama and the Democrats have staked out is the very position that moderate Republicans have staked out before."

full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-revealed-a-moderate-republican/2011/04/25/AFPrGfkE_story.html

They're out of their f'ing minds.