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Defense Official: Obama Calling for Defense Budget Cuts
FOX News ^ | Friday, January 30, 2009 | By Jennifer Griffin

Posted on 01/31/2009 12:23:18 PM PST by MaestroLC

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.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; antimilitary; aurrender; bho; bhodod; budget; chamberlain; cicobama; cuts; defense; defensespending; destroyer; hussain; nationalinsecurity; obama; usmilitary; weakling
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(h/t hotair)

Hope? Change? Nope. All too predictable.

1 posted on 01/31/2009 12:23:19 PM PST by MaestroLC
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To: MaestroLC

What about the stimulus from increasing military spending?


2 posted on 01/31/2009 12:25:10 PM PST by expatpat
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To: expatpat

Welcome to 9/10


3 posted on 01/31/2009 12:27:43 PM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Yep


4 posted on 01/31/2009 12:29:20 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: MaestroLC

All of this is designed by liberals to support the troops.

When the next war comes and they don’t have the latest and greatest body armor, armored vehicles or what is pertinent to that conflict, it will give them a reason to protest and show how they support of the troops!

The left only has the troops interests at heart when it serves the left’s purposes. Only when there’s a war they oppose do they pretend to support the troops and of course that support is best expressed by demands that they surrender to the enemy.


5 posted on 01/31/2009 12:32:26 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (Somewhere In Kenya, A Village Is Missing It's Idiot)
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To: MaestroLC
More butter welfare handouts, less guns.
6 posted on 01/31/2009 12:32:27 PM PST by mkjessup (You are either with the Constitution, or you are with the TKU, "The Kenyan Usurper", CHOOSE dammit!)
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To: MaestroLC

Is Obama anti-security?

It would seem so.


7 posted on 01/31/2009 12:32:58 PM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: MaestroLC

Is Obambi talking about the entire budget including the war or just the base Pentagon budget? If he’s talking base budget, they this is a “Jim Jones” budget, suicidal.

Anyone know what the pentagon budget is as part of GNP? With and without the funding for the war?


8 posted on 01/31/2009 12:35:11 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (Somewhere In Kenya, A Village Is Missing It's Idiot)
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To: expatpat
What about the stimulus from increasing military spending?

It's not "socially responsible" doncha know...

Plus it all goes to the evil, war mongering rich.

9 posted on 01/31/2009 12:36:46 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (Somewhere In Kenya, A Village Is Missing It's Idiot)
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To: MaestroLC

O will do nothing but further humiliate us in the eyes of the world and now he wants to reduce the size of the military and thereby make us more open to attack. I hope the American public who elected the farce into the White House will remember when they doomed us to defeat.


10 posted on 01/31/2009 12:36:55 PM PST by pctech
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What about the stimulus from increasing military spending?

The Obambi administration will spend it instead on stuff like Head Start, which we know doesnt work. It's more important to make liberals feel virtuous than to protect the country.

11 posted on 01/31/2009 12:36:56 PM PST by freespirited (Help save humanity. Cure the RINOvirus.)
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To: MaestroLC

If they cancelled all “news” on tv the economy would improove immediatly.


12 posted on 01/31/2009 12:43:16 PM PST by screaminsunshine (f)
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To: Erik Latranyi

He will do what Clinton did; Stop making new arms, stop developing new technology for killing, etc,,,. 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.

They will scale back the number of troops considerably. Perhaps cut their pay to nothing and start the draft again. Some of those will go into the newly formed “Civilian Security Force” and perform the above mentioned duties also.

This will provide a job for the masses out of work in the cities, etc,,.


13 posted on 01/31/2009 12:43:19 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go? (ACORN))
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To: MaestroLC

Perhaps The-Failure-in-Chief will simply draft Human Shields to balance out the shortfall.


14 posted on 01/31/2009 12:43:35 PM PST by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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To: MaestroLC

So, 0 is gonna increase troop level in Afghanistan (more money to support the troops) and then cut the military’s budget.....Hmmmm.....guess Zel Miller...the new ruling anti-America elitist class actually does want our guys and gals to fight with spitballs.


15 posted on 01/31/2009 12:45:44 PM PST by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: MaestroLC

so decrease military spending but increase food stamps
homo’s open in the military
overturn state laws and throw DOMA out
close gitmo
be nice to terrorists
first call is to the Palestinian Abbas
first media address is to muslims though Arab TV where he states he has muslims family and knows muslims very well
then there pork bill to make us in debt and poor for a generation and maybe two

There is no doubt in my mind that those man was put into this position because he was groomed for it and intends to destroy us from within as they know they couldn’t beat us on the military front
Hitler knew that, Ayers knew this and so did commies, it is now muslims who are at work with their radical left wing friends .

Surely the country will wake up soon from their obsession with him and realise what his agenda is.
He needs to be outed out of office as fast as possible, the GOP needs to get his agenda and his two weeks of actions out publicly other wise one year of this and his civilian security force will be taking us over.


16 posted on 01/31/2009 12:47:08 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: MaestroLC

Self-deleting my thoughts.


17 posted on 01/31/2009 12:48:51 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (American Revolution II, overdue.)
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To: freespirited

head start, free lunches and breakfast etc has to stop.

IT IS CRIMINAL THAT WE HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR KIDS because they are too lazy

cant afford kids and to feed them then do not have any
fed up of going in the grocery store to see a family in front of me with carts full and they use food stamps to pay for it, MY MONEY


18 posted on 01/31/2009 12:49:58 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: freespirited

Cut the military funding by 10%..........and give Acorn 4 Billion. All of this in the first two weeks. Heaven help us from this Marxist thug.


19 posted on 01/31/2009 12:49:59 PM PST by steve7
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

read my other post on here saying what you sort of said

he is our enemy and is out to destroy us from within

the GOP needs to make a stink on this, increases food stamps and welfare but decrease military spending.


20 posted on 01/31/2009 12:51:26 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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