Posted on 11/21/2011 3:22:20 PM PST by opentalk
At least we know Democrats are evil. Republicans go around and tell us they are sane - but it is a lie.
It’s the Republicans fault that the Democrats don’t want a deal and Obama will even veto any deal they would have come up with anyway. lol.
What that chart does not show is that spending on the military has been cut further under Obama. There are also two side to the Defense budget - its "real" budget, and Overseas Contingency Operations budget, which is used to fund wars like Iraq and Afghanistan. That has been cut even further (as it should), but the Democrats tapped that keg as "savings" so that their precious runaway Entitlement spending could cook the books even more.
Forbes says U.S. defense spending, measured against GDP, is near historic low
The DoD just took in $350 Billion in real cuts, even before the "Super Committee" failed.
Now, the Faustian Bargain the Republicans made will devastate the Defense Department.
One terrifying truth is now laid naked: entitlement spending is breaking the back of this nation, and a bunch of lazy, greedy Americans now suck at the teat at an alarming rate. And...they won't give up their addiction to direct deposit checks. Ever.
Do you know what the cuts are? Any time zero (or any Rat for that mater) advocates cuts in spending you have to ask yourself just what it is he's talking about. In this case he's talking about gutting the military. I hope this isn't the type of cuts you were expecting.
Shall I post pictures of the Marine Barracks being blown up in Lebanon during Reagan’s first term?
These incidence during the Carter years had to do with incompetence, not money.
Agreed. Every time I think that I can’t possibly despise Obama any more than I already do, he does something else to prove me wrong.
If you can get congressional dims and pubs to agree on a bill, they'll have the votes.
He is purely EVIL please tell me no one falls for this crap but his hacks.
His cuts to Medicare?
And this douchebag tries to make himself look like the budget-cutter who makes the hard decisions.
What utter, complete bulls**t. And his lapdog, lickspittle media will wet itself with delight.
No more meetings, no more talk.
It's a good election strategy and it's good conservative policy.
Yes, entitlement spending needs to be brought under control even more so than defense. But we still need to cut defense. If there’s a “red line” we shouldn’t cross with defense spending as a “fraction of GDP”, where is it?
Works for me.
All true.
Freepers generally don't realize issues don't matter to the dumb bastards in the middle that decide elections.
That’s the winning move.
We all want cuts but in other people’s programs. We all want to raise everyone else’s taxes. Failure of a demos to exercise any sense of rationality.
Someone needs to post that comic of Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown ... “Come on Charlie, let’s cut the budget ...”
It’s true that Democrats aren’t very rational. That’s why they would do the country a great service by dissolving forever. Doesn’t mean national security hawks can’t be irrational as well.
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