""We project that certain Army and Marine Corps accounts will run dry in August," Morrell said. "So we urgently need Congress to pass the supplemental before members leave town for the next break in August.""
We probably have the most corrupt, misguided, and irresponsible congress in the history of our country! The congress is focusing on its own socialist agenda against the will of the people they are supposed to represent. I suppose that they know better than the taxpayers. How do they justify their out-of-control tax and spend insanity?
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2553424/posts
Unilateral Disarmament (Oliver North)
Fox News ^ | July 15, 2010 | Col. Oliver North
Posted on July 15, 2010 5:00:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
Washington, D.C. — While President Obama golfs his way through the Gulf Coast’s oil-drenched environmental calamity, another crisis is looming across the Potomac. America’s military, in harm’s way in a two-front war, is about to get staggered by a double-whammy below the belt. Unfortunately for those who wear our nation’s uniform, the commander in chief and his cronies in Congress are throwing the punches.
The first blow will land in the next two weeks unless Sen. Harry Reid’s Senate and Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives can get their act together to pass a supplemental appropriations bill to fund combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In May, while proselytizing for homosexuals in our military, Defense Secretary Robert Gates gently reminded the Congressional Armed Services Committees that he needed the appropriation by Memorial Day. They ignored him.
Last month, Secretary Gates went again and told them the funds had to be approved before the Independence Day recess or the Pentagon would have to start doing “stupid things” — like shifting funds within the overall Defense Department budget just to keep the troops in the field re-supplied with beans, bullets and bandages. Once again Congress, taking their cue from Obama’s virtual silence on the matter, did nothing.
On July 13, Gates went up to Capitol Hill again, urging the solons to break the deadlock before the House recesses for “campaign season” at the end of the month. The defense secretary warned without action by then, he will have to start cancelling contracts on everything from weapons and equipment repairs to ammunition and fuel purchases in order to pay the troops. Not exactly what a soldier, sailor, airman, Guardsmen or Marine needs to hear in the middle of Afghanistan’s “fighting season.”
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It appears to me the DemoRATS are setting up a no win, back-to-the-wall for the Republicans with purpose to force a vote in their favor containing something the Dems want that is going to ride on the military spending authorization.
Probably Cap & Trade.