Obama to ask Joint Chiefs to cut defense budget 10%

FoxNews.com | Jan 30, 2009

[Joiseydude]

Just heard on FoxNews that Obama is planning on asking the Joint Chiefs to cut the defense budget 10%.

[fso301]

Obama is planning on asking the Joint Chiefs to cut the defense budget 10%.

Isn't that the job of Congress?

[Red Boots]

Imagine that...announced on a Friday night

Yeah - what a pussy !

[SusaninOhio]

my brother is retired AF col, Academy graduate, fighter pilot, and a solid Dem.

I just sent the tricare bit to him. I’m sure he will say that Pres Zero wouldn’t do that.

My son is on the F-35 project. They have a young family and now I get to worry about them too.

what a load of BS this administration is.

[goldstategop]

Apparently, defending America is the one place Leftards like Obama agree spending needs to be cut!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[mware]

Obama is planning on asking the Joint Chiefs to cut the defense budget 10%.

Isn't that the job of Congress?

Yes, Congress controls the purse strings.

God help us they will ask for a cut of 15%.

[luckystarmom]

I just don’t feel like I deserve him because I did not vote for him.

I hate that I am going to have to pay for socialist agenda.

I hate that my kids are going to have to pay for his socialist agenda.

I just want the govt to go away and leave me alone.

[WackySam]

Damn! Is that Uncle Floyd?

Boy does that bring back memories.

[Foolsgold]

How about at least 10% cut in his protection, he wants us to be less safe, I want him to share the burden

[NTHockey]

Easy - close every military base in New England (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT); Mid-Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD)and Far West (CA, OR, WA, NV).

[saganite]

You miss the point of these cuts. Defense spending is discretionary spending. Other “programs” can’t be cut. Their level of funding is mandated by law. Expecting any like cuts in other programs is a worthless pursuit. Also, in light of his election pledge to create a para military domestic security force with Pentagon money you have to ask yourself where this 10% of Pentagon money will be going.

[qwertypie]

Coup.

Now.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

I hate that my kids are going to have to pay for his socialist agenda.

That ship has sailed. We're pretty much at the point where their kids are already on the hook.

[Diogenesis]

[penelopesire]

Yep..watch the stocks of all the defense industries tank Monday morning with the opening bell.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of jobs hanging in the balance...so what does Obama do? He kicks those jobs down the toilet..in addition to our military men and women!

I never understood why the republicans ran from ‘Big Oil’ either btw. They employ millions of people in this country and hundreds of thousands more in other countries!!

Everything is upside down now and ‘Atlas Shrugged’ is not a novel of fiction anymore..but a ‘reality show’!

[DesertRhino]

He has apologized to Islam.
his first interview was to an islamic news service.
He will be releasing terrorists into the USA to sue us and continue their America hate.
He has stopped the gitmo trials.
He is in the process of nationalizing the banking industry. He has committed to the global warming fraud as the center thrust of America’s economy.
Now he intends to cut at least 10% from DOD. Guys, don’t kid yourself, thats a DEEP cut, and will hit us very hard.

Does anyone doubt that he intends to nationalize healthcare?
Does anyone doubt he will demand our guns be surrendered?
Do you doubt he will try to confiscate 401k’s into government run plans?
Do you doubt he really will demand “voluntary” service from our children,,,our daughters.
Do you doubt he will move to suppress free speech?

This man is more dangerous than we thought.
Too many voters really didn’t believe him when he said he intends to fundamentally change the USA. I think this will somehow end badly, when some Patriots refuse to meekly submit.
God pray that it is a “revolt” at the very next ballot box.

[luvie]

Didn’t we already know this was going to happen!???

I am surprised he didn’t want it cut more. Guess he’s going
to do in incrementally so we “won’t notice”!!!!

[ritewingwarrior]

I feel you. I am ready to move. Hes got 6 months. If he does what it appears he is going to do, I am selling out and taking the fam to live in the Caribbean for a while in a grass hut on the beach like bums. :) Maybe if America wakes up I can come back and contribute to a winning cause with a country that lives by the Constitution.

If I have to leave I will write to Mr. obama and ask him to let me take the Constitution with me as a memento, of a better time. He certainly doesn’t care about it or need it, and neither do the people in Washington.

[rbmillerjr]

Here we go.

God forgive me, I just want liberals to vanish.

[doc1019]

Sounds like Jimmy Carter has made it back to the White House. :-(

[mojitojoe]

I'm a little confused. He wants to cut the military budget then spend just as much if not more, on his own civilian army. Hmmmm He's is a big dreamer, has a plan but even grown ups couldn't pull this sh*t off. He will fail, and rather quickly is my guess.