Boehner takes flak from Republican defense hawks on sequester stance

House Republican defense hawks are pushing back strongly against Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) claim that he has GOP support to allow steep automatic budget cuts to take effect if President Obama does not agree to replace them with other reductions.

Party leaders have for more than a year railed against the Pentagon portion of the across-the-board cuts known as sequestration, but in an interview published Monday, Boehner pointed to the reductions as leverage and said he had significant Republican support, including from defense hawks, in his “back pocket.”

“I don’t support that,” said Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), a member of the Armed Services Committee whose district includes one of the nation’s largest military installations. “You get into dangerous territory when you talk about using national security as a bargaining chip with the president.”

So one giant pile of money is gianter than another which means the smaller pile is inconsequential? If I’m broke and I borrow $200,000 to buy a Rolls Royce Ghost and $400,000 to buy a Rolls Royce Phantom, are you going to tell me that it was crazy to buy the Phantom but reasonable to buy the Ghost?

You are either deliberately attempting to confuse the fact, or you don't know the difference.

Giveaway entitlement checks are not national defense, and national defense is not a giveaway entitlement check.

Almost 70% of ALL Federal spending is now either welfare or entitlements.

Think about that.

The Socialists have almost won. This is almost a rout.

The US military has stood for freedom, courage, and American values through horrible wars and national disasters.

I can repeat myself again here, because the facts do not seem to penetrate: the military has already been cut deeply. Obama ordered Gates to do it, and Panetta finished the job. The military was the only federal agency that he cut in real dollars.

$450 Billion dollars, we have canceled scores of weapon systems, hollowed out our force, and yet burdened the military with almost impossible missions.

The US Air Force today operates a geriatric fleet. If war comes on a major scale, the American public is going to have a rude awakening. Our enemies know how weak we really have become, and we are becoming weaker by the day.

Sequestration will be an evisceration.

Even Panetta and Democrats acknowledge this.

What makes all of this even more obscene is that the people in American who have sacrificed the most will suffer even more. Military health care will be cut back even more than it has been. DoD overseas schools will be closed. Even the commissaries where military families try to stretch an already devalued, hard earned paycheck will be shut down.

Meanwhile, the unemployment checks, the food stamps, the Social Security checks, and the gravy train for millions of American who have not lifted one finger for this nation plods along with increasing speed.

I read this Psalm the other day, that summarized my feelings on the matter:

"Psalm 73:1-8 "Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost slipped. I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong. They are free from the burdens common to man; they are not plagued by human ills. Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence. From their callous hearts comes iniquity the evil conceits of their minds know no limits. They scoff and speak with malice; in their arrogance they threaten oppression. They mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth".

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