"Were are we going?"
"I don't know, but I'm glad it's a change."
Posted on 03/04/2009 6:02:15 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday promised to save American taxpayers 40 billion dollars a year by slashing waste in government contracting, with a special eye on bloated spending on defense.
"I reject the false choice between securing this nation and wasting billions of taxpayer dollars," Obama said on a day when he signed a presidential memorandum reforming the contracting system across the entire government.
"In this time of great challenges, I recognize the real choice between investments that are designed to keep the American people safe and those that are designed to make a defense contractor rich," Obama said.
The president's promise to clean up contracting was in line with his pledge to cut the soaring federal budget deficit in half by the end of his mandate in 2013.
As Obama spoke, he was flanked by his former Republican rival for the presidency, Senator John McCain, who is a hawkish opponent of wasteful spending in the Pentagon, and scours legislation for lawmaker's pet projects.
Obama honed in on runaway Pentagon spending, vowing that "the days of giving defense contractors a blank check are over," and highlighted work by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to overhaul military procurement at the Pentagon.
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This guy certainly has my vote as the most cynical POTUS yet foisted upon us by the godless socialists.
Yeah, let’s slash defense and spend trillions on community organizing. That’s the ticket. Why am I in this handbasket?
WTF?!
April Fool’s already???
this article makes my head hurt.
“He uses this dumb grammatical construct all the time. I guess it works with the drones. Who ever said we have to waste billions to secure this nation.”
liberals are real suckers for straw men and false dichotomies.
If you believe what you are told, Obama, the narcissist, is happy and you are giving him the narcissistic supply he needs.
If you confront Obama, the narcissist, with the lie, and don’t believe it, you are removed from his world of “supply.” He cuts you off. He devalues you. He excludes you, or retaliates, or gets revenge. But Obama doesn’t care that you don’t believe him with any feeling of REMORSE at all for lying.
The lies Obama tells is only to influence, or entice, or impress you in some way, or to worm out of something he does not want to admit to, to hide behind, or blame someone else.
If Obama’s lie does not work, don’t think he even cares if you believe his version of the story. He probably won’t even remember it. He just moves on.
His lies continue and people like John McCain and others will still accept his invitations to dine at the White House and will agree to pose with him in a picture all the while Obama uses and manipulates them for his own personal gain. Power and control. Power and control!!
As Americans, we love this country and lately we can’t sleep at night. Obama, the narcissist, is sound asleep with a smile -”job well done.”
His lies will continue.
I am speechless. Simply speechless.
Suicide by axe. yeeeechhhh!
More bloody posturing and vapid words from Commander Zero.
Shameless and demented. He’ll say anything to get a polling point.
He’s already reached the boy cried wolf status in less than two months.
Loser.
After projecting Iraq war spending at current levels for the next ten years, he next said that he had personally "saved" $1T by redlining the budget.
This guy makes Bill Clinton look like George Washington.
I don’t think I would go THAT far about Clinton IMO.
Do you think Obama even remembers what truth is? A serious question. Everything out of his mouth is a lie.
so he spends $787B on liberal pork and curs $40B of defense and he is somehow keeping a watch on wasteful spending. This article reminds me of Soviet style propaganda
LOLOLOL this is a joke right? He must think we are idiots!
He uses this dumb grammatical construct all the time. I guess it works with the drones. Who ever said we have to waste billions to secure this nation.
You are correct. Obama constantly uses "straw man" arguments. Strange to see one with his intellectual prowess -- or so, we are constantly told -- relying on such intellectually weak logical rhetoric.
“Here are some breadcrumbs my sheeple. I just took a loaf of bread and spread thousands of crumbs to you all. Sorry, the Producers all left.”
Yep.
It reads, sounds and smells like they already do.
"Were are we going?"
"I don't know, but I'm glad it's a change."
Oh my...that’s like a headline in March of 2003 reading “Bush refuses to invade Iraq, calls Saddam ‘my best buddy.’” It is to laugh.
Are you sure this was AFP and not MiniTru?
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