Posted on 07/21/2009 10:13:23 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
Lambasting defense “waste,” President Obama came to the Rose Garden this afternoon to take a little victory lap, his first veto threat – against a defense bill that until minutes ago contained $1.75 billion in funding for the F-22 “Raptor” fighter jet – having worked.
“I reject the notion that we have to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on outdated and unnecessary defense products to keep this nation secure,” the president declared, saying he was “grateful” the Senate voted to kill the F-22 fighter jets “that military experts and members of both parties say we do not need.”
Budgeting, the president said, “is a zero-sum game,” with “every dollar of waste…a dollar we can't spend to support our troops or prepare for future threats or protect the American people.”
“If more money goes to F-22s, it is our troops and our citizens who lose,” the president said, calling further funding of the F-22, targeted for elimination by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, “an inexcusable waste of money.”
The president singled out the chair and ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and former election opponent John McCain, R-Ariz., for leading the charge against the F-22. He also thanked Gates and “every member of Congress who put politics aside to do what is right.”
-jpt
Outdated? Tell that to every other nation on Earth. What a POS this guy is.
defense “products”????
What a dumb pig. I cannot stand this man.
1.75 billion dollars...compared to 10 trillion in debt and waste they are spending....amazing idiots....
This cannot be real. This has got to be satire.
Please, tell me this is satire.
Not that the function of government contracts is to employ people, but I wonder if this will affect the unemployment numbers...
i guess we can deduct those employees from the numbers of jobs created and or saved....
So, we will end up at 187 of these fabulous, most modern, most dominant fighters.
187 F-22's, 20- B-2's and 100 B-1B's. Does anyone else not see anything wrong with this picture>
These are tremendous force multipliers for us...we need many more to ensure our absolute dominance...but we have a marxist in the White House, abetted by more of the same in congress, who are not interested in us dominating anything.
To the contrary, they appear hell bent on us being dominated at home and abroad. They thus fail to fulfill the very most basic function of government.
A PETITION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
A 4TH OF JULY TEA PARTY SPEECH
...and on the lighter side, take your mind off the Obamanation for a few minutes and enjoy some beautiful Western US scenery slideshows.
Dim Senators Murry & Cantwell aren’t going to be happy.
It will affect unemployment. But mainly in Georgia, a red (Republican) state.
“I reject the notion that we have to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on outdated and unnecessary defense products”
OH DEAR GOD!!!!! THE F-22 IS OUR MOST ADVANCED FIGHTER, DANG IT!!!!!!! PLUS, 95,000 FREAKING JOBS ARE TIED TO THE PROGRAM!!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, OBUMMA???!!!!???
And McCain.............oh, he has me OUTRAGED!!!!!! Is he still so mad at Boeing (who is one of the partners in the program) that he wants to compromise our national security???
ZERO hates the notion of first strike weapons. It scares the Muslims.
I reject the notion that we have to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on outdated and unnecessary defense products to keep this nation secure,”
“When I, alone, can go to any terrorist country and by simply talking to them, I can produce peace - just by listening to my marvelous words,and they can read my teleprompter and know I am sincere” Because, after all, I can do all things. Anyway, I need all the money for my supreme healthcare program which will be costing my subjects every penny they own way into the 23rd centry.
This is smoke and mirrors to make him appear fiscally prudent.
The Pentagon has been saying all along it doesn’t want the F-22’s. They’re too expensive to maintain. The F-35,joint strike fighter is what they want.
Nice try Zero!!!
We are in the twilight zone people...
The only zero game in Barack Obama. Nice. If we’re attacked, he goes running to his bunker. F***ing Democrats.
Military-hater Zero vs. a bunch of perfumes princes seeking fat retirement jobs and in the third corner we have defense industry fat cats raking billions on over-priced defense systems. Where’s the Orville Redenbackers?
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