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Obama, Gates are gutting America’s defense industry
Washington Examiner ^ | August 30, 2009 | James Carafano

Posted on 08/31/2009 6:26:41 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 08/31/2009 6:26:41 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

I hope that this comes as no surprise to anyone here.


2 posted on 08/31/2009 6:30:32 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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To: neverdem

Also, the skills rquired to produce the stuff are lost.

There needs to be stuff constantly in the supply and mfg chain to keep the skills current. Already some of the best and brightest SW engineers are wasting their time here at
MS on products that should have been cancelled (Zune? Flight Sim? Bing?) and producing hacks for the weasels
that run complex scams for the stock and securities markets. All non-productive, all a waste of talent.


3 posted on 08/31/2009 6:33:38 PM PDT by rahbert
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To: neverdem

Was anyone ever under the illusion that the left wasn’t going to gut defense???

I mean look at 1992 through 2000...Same playbook, different players...Gut defense, pay for welfare programs.

Only this time, they are doing it to the Intelligence community too...Pacifism is like a religion with the left.


4 posted on 08/31/2009 6:35:15 PM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: neverdem
Voters, obama and his regime, as well as those who control them have done in but a few months what our enemies have been unable to do...other than Jimmy Carter, that is. God help us.
5 posted on 08/31/2009 6:35:26 PM PDT by GBA
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To: neverdem

As well as McCain.Did not the dude say we are not going to be base on a manufactureing based economy during the primaries?Correct me if I’m wrong.


6 posted on 08/31/2009 6:35:40 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (If I had any further to go,I'd be there.)
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To: neverdem

I served my last 8 years in the AF under the Clinton administration and saw our defense budget slashed every year and about a year before 9-11 I had said that it would take another Pearl Harbor to wake America up and make folks realize that without a strong defense we were leaving ourselves wide open for an attack on our on soil...

We are headed down that same path...only this time...I fear it will be far worse...


7 posted on 08/31/2009 6:35:59 PM PDT by Lisamei62 (Right Wing Extremist Mom)
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To: neverdem

We need the manufacturing base that’s been outsourced to China and elsewhere. Engineers, machinists, and technicians need places to go between defense projects.


8 posted on 08/31/2009 6:41:20 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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Also, the skills rquired to produce the stuff are lost. There needs to be stuff constantly in the supply and mfg chain to keep the skills current.

Yes the defense industry is being gutted. Talented S/W engineering teams are being disbanded and their members are looking for jobs elsewhere.

9 posted on 08/31/2009 6:46:24 PM PDT by FreeReign
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I mean look at 1992 through 2000...Same playbook, different players...Gut defense, pay for welfare programs.

It's worse this time.

10 posted on 08/31/2009 6:47:53 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

It is much worse this time — They are actually going after the Intelligence community too.

God forbid we ever get hit again, but if we get hit on his watch...the fhit is going to hit the san...


11 posted on 08/31/2009 6:51:41 PM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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****I served my last 8 years in the AF under the Clinton administration and saw our defense budget slashed every year and about a year before 9-11 I had said that it would take another Pearl Harbor to wake America up and make folks realize that without a strong defense we were leaving ourselves wide open for an attack on our on soil...

We are headed down that same path...only this time...I fear it will be far worse...****

This time the people in power are out to neuter America precisely because we have a large population of free Christians who have in the past and the present been instrumental in spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

This is what the world wants to stop. We have many of our fellow citizens that wish this too. They have been indoctrinated by an educational system that has systematically removed Christ from the educational process.


12 posted on 08/31/2009 6:51:42 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (Bureaucratic healthcare is bad medicine.)
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DO NOT confuse these acts with innocent childhood pacifism.

We have a marxist muslim (ANTI) president at work with his (hidden) agenda which is consistent with his muslim marxist beliefs.


13 posted on 08/31/2009 6:56:06 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: areukiddingme1

Czars?

Think one moment about the czars.

WHO needs more czars??? .....

Where do his allegiances lie? Who is Obama? There are many vids where he introduces his pastor,Jeremiah Wright, a man who introduced him to “his christian faith 20 years ago”. My guess is that he still retained his muslim beliefs from Indonesia.Thats why he still relates to Islam and secondly, his “ church” gave a muslim, Loius Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award...
http://www.bollywoodsargam.com/video_todayfeaturedvideo.php?blockbustermovieclip=Prhnc2fxAzg——The_shocking_video_Barack_Obama_does_not_want_you__to_see!!_featured_hollywood_blockbuster_video.html

Basically, very unamerican. Actually Anti American.....

Who is obama.. I dunno. What is he doing is unconstitutional.
Either way, face it he already has his agenda deep into play
He has already set up his parallel government with what 32 czars who were hand picked and that report directly to him.... totally bypassing the senate. This treasonous conspiracy by the MARXISTS have nothing to do with the constitution which call for the peoples input. Unconstitutional!

And he took oath to uphold the constitution...

Soon you will see him create a crisis and bring out his own militia of Black Panthers with “general” Louis Farrakhan! No seriously though, he will shift power so he is no longer the president of the US but the totalitarian Ruler of the US. He may well retain the title “pres”

Change the government! Impeach the president!

Not only Glenn Beck sees this, but Sonja Schmidt...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9yI9LCILhU

or Rev MAnning on Youtube... se his Anti American President,

or look up Larry Sinclair, Press conference part 1

Its either impeach or prepare for his seeded race/ economic war.


14 posted on 08/31/2009 6:58:44 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: himno hero

****We have a marxist muslim (ANTI) president at work with his (hidden) agenda which is consistent with his muslim marxist beliefs.****

In all truth I can’t see a true marriage of Marxism and Sharia Law. Either Obama is intent on helping institute Islam or Marxism, or he is winging it.


15 posted on 08/31/2009 7:04:38 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (Bureaucratic healthcare is bad medicine.)
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To: neverdem

Otherwise, the defense industrial base is going to dry up and blow away.


Well, duh—that is what they want. Gates probably knows better, but he has drunk the kool-aid. Do you think the radicals in Obama’s administration (like Van Jones, the Green Jobs Czar) give one whit about the defense industrial base? Actually, they do—they want to destroy it.

Only when America is defenseless and at the mercy of China, Russia, even Iran & North Korea will liberal guilt be assuaged. Liberals will spit on conservatives who defend freedom, but will gladly lick the boots of the commisars that kick them in the teeth.


16 posted on 08/31/2009 7:09:24 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Lisamei62

Guess what? We had our second Pearl Harbor, and we STILL kept shrinking out military.


17 posted on 08/31/2009 7:11:28 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Lisamei62
We are headed down that same path...only this time...I fear it will be far worse...

It will be. We have a totalitarian leftist who will attempt seize dictatorial power with the next attack on American soil and will actually sympathize with our enemies.

18 posted on 08/31/2009 7:15:31 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (The way to destroy a countercultural movement is to have white people start liking it.)
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To: Lisamei62
I served my last 8 years in the AF under the Clinton administration and saw our defense budget slashed every year

Doesn't Congress control the budget?

19 posted on 08/31/2009 7:23:33 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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There is only one answer. The Pentagon should immediately start a sustained program of modernizing its military capabilities.

Not with The Coup in charge. Every serviceman and woman needs to not re-up. Every potential enlistee needs to not enlist. This is a coup, it is not a legitimate Executive, and the Legislative is hopelessly corrupt.

You're just going to get yourselves killed for the Kenyan's amusement. Until he's removed, don't do it. Get home. Stay home. Prepare. Not much time left now.

20 posted on 08/31/2009 7:32:05 PM PDT by John Titor
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