This is a rebuttal to the FALSE statement that Obama won't put Military spending 'on the table'.
Sick of the lies, false information, half truths and all around BULLSHIT posted on DU about Obama and other elected DEMOCRATS.
Incoming! More Defense Spending Cuts?When we wrote in April that the U.S. could both build a smarter military and save $1 trillion in defense spending over the coming decade (out of a total of about $7 trillion), it seemed pretty radical. But President Obama has called for $400 billion in savings over the coming 12 years, and now there's word that an even deeper cut -- perhaps another $400 billion -- may be coming. All of a sudden, cuts of up to $800 billion -- within spitting distance of $1 trillion in this town -- seem possible.
"I'm certainly doing budget drills beyond $400 billion," Marine General James Cartwright, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Battleland over breakfast Thursday. The politically-astute four-star insisted he was merely exercising self-initiated due diligence. But a senior Pentagon official says the Office of Management and Budget has ordered the Pentagon to plan for cuts beyond that initial $400 billion bogey.
"The reality is you're worried about a deeper cut," Cartwright said. "Is there another $400 billion behind the first $400 billion -- I don't what the number is." But even the suggestion that deeper cuts may be coming requires planning. "Let's say $400 billion may not be all that hard to come up with, but the decisions you make, if you know you're going to do more, may be very different decisions -- so you have to look beyond that," he told reporters. "So we're doing due diligence on that -- we're going to go ahead and look beyond.
Responding to a follow-up from Battleland, Cartwright repeated $400 billion as the possible size of an additional cut: "If there is another $400 billion," he said, "I do I want to make sure when I set myself up that I'm going to be able to do that."
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http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/07/15/incoming-more-defense-spending-cuts/#ixzz1ST64Ph4H