HERE WE GO: Costly US weapons face budget cuts under Obama

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[DTAD]

Hi-tech fighter aircraft, new warships and missile defense projects are all potential targets for big cuts in the US defense budget, as the American military faces a new era of limits under President Barack Obama.

With a mushrooming budget deficit of more than a trillion dollars, the new administration has signaled it hopes to scale back military spending partly through a planned reduction of troops in Iraq and by taking the axe to big ticket weapons programs.

[NewHampshireDuo]

I’m sure that the Mainiacs and New Hampshirites that voted for Zero will be astonished when the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and Bath Iron Works find themselves with a lot less work.

[Son House]

The Leftist mind is a terrible thing to use.

You can say that again, and again, and again...

[autumnraine]

Everyone still think this guy is just a naive fool? Or do you finally recognize he is INTENTIONALLY out to destroy this country?

Give me my tinfoil, but this guy is a commie and/or a sleeper cell in hisself.

Or both.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

"This is highly sensitive stuff involving programs costing tens of billions of dollars, employing hundreds of thousands of people and -- and go to the heart of national security," press secretary Geoff Morrell said.

So... with the economy on the ropes let's add a few more body blows to the gut, manufacturing.

Brilliant.

[TYVets]

Generalissimo Zero has the same attitude toward the military as did the Clintons.