Posted on 08/29/2010 10:07:26 PM PDT by Nachum
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday will outline steps his administration is taking to revamp U.S. export restrictions on defense and high-tech goods, which is expected to lead to thousands of less sensitive items being decontrolled, senior administration officials said.
"We've done this fundamentally for national security reasons so that we can ... focus our resources on protecting the most critical technologies," one of the senior officials told reporters at a briefing.
The initiative, which already has been one year in the making, responds to frustration felt by U.S. defense and high-tech companies, who say export controls that date to the Cold War cost them billions of dollars in lost sales.
U.S. allies also complain they often face long waits to get spare parts for U.S.-made weapons systems because of licensing requirements as rigorous as for the weapons themselves.
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We´d better stop this guy in November, if we´re not totally sold-out buy then.
It is one minute to midnight.
1. This is not being done to help out the US defense industry in support of their economy, or the US economy at large.
2. This is not being done for the sake of frustrated allies looking for spare parts.
It is being done to further weaken our lead in the technology that keeps us safe... it's the same reason we are unilaterally reducing our nuclear arms stockpiles: he is neutering our country, and thus empowering and enticing all of our enemies, both foreign and domestic. We will be left vulnerable -- exactly the way he wants us. And I bet this doesn't stop here, either.
“Two things are for certain:
1. This is not being done to help out the US defense industry in support of their economy, or the US economy at large.
2. This is not being done for the sake of frustrated allies looking for spare parts.
It is being done to further weaken our lead in the technology that keeps us safe... it’s the same reason we are unilaterally reducing our nuclear arms stockpiles: he is neutering our country, and thus empowering and enticing all of our enemies, both foreign and domestic. We will be left vulnerable — exactly the way he wants us. And I bet this doesn’t stop here, either. “
I believe you are correct. The operational verb here is TREASON!
Not a peep from Corporate Media either!
Reason number 617,386 why Liberal Free Trade Globalism is never a good idea....things are traded that harm National Security
Too many will whine about Obama doing this...yet will still push Free Trade Globalism. You cannot have your Communism and eat it, too
“We’re planning to get rid of our fence and the dogs so that we can concentrate on keeping our burglar alarms working.”
The faster Obama puts all his plans in place...
We have been selling Arabs tens of billions of $ of top notch military equipment already. In down times everyone is selling: the French to the Russians, us to Arabs, the Russians and the Chinese to everyone.
12:59:59 or 23:59:59 if you will
lol Give O the money behind close doors.
This jerk wants to control absolutely everything else, but he wants to loosen controls and sell our military items to foreign countries? Just like selling the rope to hang ourselves. Another item to prove that Barry hates the USA.
Equipping America’s future enemies, one item at a time.
IOW they can’t keep up with monitoring all this stuff so they are changing the definition of what is “sensitive.”
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