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Billions For Climate, Not One More Cent For Defense
IBD Editorials ^ | May 19, 2012

Posted on 05/19/2012 1:43:59 PM PDT by raptor22

Federal Priorities: A new report shows we have spent $70 billion on climate change since 2008 while our strapped military is ordered to become energy-efficient. Imagine weapons that don't harm the environment.

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, took to the Senate floor Thursday to decry the green agenda being imposed on the military by the Obama administration at the same time the defense budget is being sacrificed on the altar of runaway deficit spending.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: climatechange; defense; disarmament; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; ibd; obama; obamalateral; surrender

1 posted on 05/19/2012 1:44:05 PM PDT by raptor22
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To: raptor22
"Imagine weapons that don't harm the environment."

Sorry....ain't working for me.

2 posted on 05/19/2012 2:12:09 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik (In a tornado, even turkeys can fly.)
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To: raptor22
"You go to war with the army you have---not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." Donald Rumsfield.

Our soldiers will have to file really sharp edges on their EBT cards.
3 posted on 05/19/2012 3:34:41 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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Obamalateral disarmament ping


4 posted on 05/19/2012 3:34:53 PM PDT by raptor22 (Join me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Rurudyne; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xcamel; AdmSmith; ...

Best defense is a good offense. Thanks raptor22.


5 posted on 05/19/2012 4:07:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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I think we owe the Senator a thank you to his email.

Was he talking to himself in an empty chamber when he said it?

That always seems so bazaar. I love watching the Brit’s parliament in session.


6 posted on 05/19/2012 4:57:15 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: SunkenCiv; raptor22
Thanks for the ping....related thread with a link to the video of Inhofe on the Senate Floor ... on WUWT:

The “well funded” climate business – follow the money

7 posted on 05/19/2012 4:59:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
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To: raptor22

Actually, widespread use of solar energy would be a big step forward for national defense. Presently our centralized power plants present obvious targets. The limited capacity of solar power might toughen us up a bit too.


8 posted on 05/19/2012 6:33:31 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: raptor22
Details on the spending by year and Dept on this thread...see the update down in the thread:

US Government *only* spent $70 billion on climate since 2008

9 posted on 05/19/2012 6:34:59 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
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Who needs a military? EVERYBODY is going to be too busy peacefuly fighting AGW/CCC arm in arm, while singing Kumbaya, to ever have a war. /sarc


10 posted on 05/19/2012 6:45:38 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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11 posted on 05/19/2012 7:45:00 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

Mrs BN & I went to Vietnam in 2004. One of the photos I took was of all the duck ponds. Recycled 500lb bomb craters!


12 posted on 05/19/2012 10:56:21 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: The Duke

“Actually, widespread use of solar energy would be a big step forward for national defense. Presently our centralized power plants present obvious targets. The limited capacity of solar power might toughen us up a bit too.”

Any solar array of reasonable capacity occupies a large area. They are also very “soft” targets; a bag of rock thrown at them would cause great damage.

As one who is currently living “off the grid” with the limitations of solar panels, battery banks & inverters (gecko crawled in and fried a $2000 inverter last month), I say that you can keep your “limited capacity of solar power might toughen us up a bit too.” Give me lightng bright enough to read by, A/C when it’s 95 & 90% humidity, and wouldn’t it be luverly to have a microwave!


13 posted on 05/19/2012 11:06:03 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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