Mr. Obama also said Tuesday that the U.S. will no longer hide the price of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, a senior U.S. official confirmed that the president will seek $75.5 billion in additional funding for combat operations for the current fiscal year and $130 billion for the fiscal year 2010, on top of the $534 billion in the defense budget.
First of all, supplemental budgets aren't "hiding" anything (as the report indicated), they are just separate from normal DoD appropriations to help them pass through congress faster. They still end up as public record once passed.
Any DoD budget is internal to DoD until signed by the President. So why go to this length? What are they trying to hide in their new transparent government? National security my shiny metal a...
...Because money in a supplemental war appropriation must be used for its intended purpose: the troops. Can't divert it or tack on 1 million for the perverted arts. Of course they don't like it - they can't steal it as easily!
Hiding money for their new Shining Path People’s National Defense Force.
That, and they don’t want people to se the gigantic cuts into our defense and intelligence budgets.
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“Obama putting military in harm’s way?”
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 2/26/2009 5:00:00 AM
SNIPPET: “A military advocacy organization is not happy with President Barack Obama’s plans to drastically cut defense spending by $53 billion.”
Why? Simple: they are going to eviserate the Defense budget and don’t want anyone complaining about it till its too late.
Transparency, Ha. They always have one more excuse why they have to hide what they are up to.
People ought to see this as truely frightening. You know they are up to no good and something that is not Constitutional in nature.
Instead, therefore, one ought reasonably consider that
this might be another of Pres.Obama's plans, which on examination are more than favorable to
the enemies of the people of the United States of America.
...The DoD budget has been reduces to a packet of old food-stamps and a couple of jars of [contaminated] peanut-butter.
More suppresion of free speech!
This a$$hat is shutting down public debate on the subject of tearing down our national security infrastructure.
This tactic allows Obama to cut programs without anybody knowing about it until it’s a done deal.
They call it a DICTATORSHIP!!!!!!!!
We know that the DoD is coming under Obama's axe. We also know that when Defense budgets (or any other budgets) are formulated that there is a lot of in-fighting and the leaks tend to come from the program managers who are facing the cuts. Neither Obama nor Gates want to be answering a lot of tough questions about specific program cuts before the budget gets rammed through. That is what this is all about.