Declining Defense - Obama's budget does cut one federal department.

Wall Street Journal ^ | 3/2/09 | WSJ

[Gabrial]

For all of his lavish new spending plans, President Obama is making one major exception: defense.

[Gabrial]

Obama is planning on significantly weakening the defense of our nation. Surprise.

[Veto!]

During the campaign he promised to spend nothing on new weapons research.

[edpc]

There are certain campaign promises we knew he’d keep.

[My Favorite Headache]

Obama is an empty mindless spector

[2banana]

Same with Clinton. Shall we expect a 40% cut?

[ClearCase_guy]

Keynesian economics will not get you out of a Great Depression. The thing that gets your economy moving is the Really Big War that comes along a few years later.

And Obama The Brilliant wants to cut back on military spending?? Now??

[jackv]

Oh my. It’s more of what BO does. If he doesn’t like it don’t fund it, bankrupt it, and drive it out of business, including our military.

[Iron Munro]

Obama is planning on significantly weakening the defense of our nation.

He needs the money to pay for his private KGB, block captains and Red Guard Civilian National Security Force.

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[Lucky9teen]

[madinmadtown]

He has already violated the Presidential Oath of Office. He promised to “defend” the Constitution. He has done no such thing. In order to defend the Constitution he has to maintain a realistic “defense” of the nation. His budget does no such thing. He is in total violation of the Presidential Oath of Office. It was never delivered in good faith.

[jessduntno]

It won’t matter soon;

Dow 6,817 -245.63
Nasdaq 1,331 -46.99

[bolobaby]

Just the beginning. Next year, after he’s pushed the economy even further into the crapper, he’ll claim that it is “necessary” to cut defense even further to “stayed focused on important economic issues.”

He’s working hard to bankrupt this country and disassemble our military.

BTW, the rifle I bought last year for $1200 is now a minimum of $1700+ on gunbroker.com. Get ‘em while you can, boys!

[b4its2late]

Yeah. Surprise, surprise.

[jessduntno]

“Keynesian economics will not get you out of a Great Depression. The thing that gets your economy moving is the Really Big War...”

Not if its a civil war...

[SlowBoat407]

Typically defense has been the quickest way to inject new money into the economy because there are outlets for it all over the country. Whichever area is hit hardest, all they have to do is ramp up a project in that area.

Proving once again that he either doesn’t get it, or he does and is trying to rip the economy to shreds while putting up the pretense of trying to save it.

[Lady Jag]

[CutePuppy]

Ronald Reagan spent Soviet Union into oblivion. Obama plans on doing the same to the United States of America.

[IrishPennant]

[Gabrial]

“rip the economy to shreds”

A war on prosperity while reducing defense capability.

No country on earth could harm the United States as much as Obama is currently doing.

[anniegetyourgun]

So true....without a shot being fired....