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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Just like quadrupling the deficit, then taking credit for cutting it in half in the future.
No Media Bias in that headline.
The President already said he would cut military spending.
Hey BO (pun intended).....
.....Do the same to the "Green Industry" you are pushing to the max
There is a TON of waste there, and most of the green agenda is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
The only thing green about it is the color of the money they are vacuuming out of Fed, State, Local, and private sector budgets.
how can someone write such delusional nonsense!? How stupid can these people be?
“Actually, he just gave $900 million (thats almost $1 trillion) to HAMAS!”
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Your math is a bit faulty, but your point is valid. Obama is giving money to the terrorists who want to destroy Israel and the United States.
The Demo-Socialists are allies of the terrorists.
or drink til you vomit
No, ........this actually makes sense. Obama really dosen’t have any intention on using military equipment under any circumstances, so why buy the junk. Just think, there is suddenly $40 Billion more for entitlement programs for selected portions of the underclass.
LOL. Then again, I shouldn't laugh.
“Obama must think were all fools”
Nah... just enough of us to put him in office and keep him there.
“I sometimes wonder if the powers that be in the Democratic Party are ever embarrassed by the people they nominate?”
The powers that be in the dem party would only be embarrassed if he weren’t left-wing enough. They pushed for, and got their radical. Now we all suffer for it.
I forgot that you have to have a sense of right, wrong and shame to be embarrassed. Silly me.
You are correct of course.
Sometimes I post messages so fast my brain seizes up! Sorry. Make that $1 Billion. I just can't keep track of all of these trillions anymore!
Obama taking an axe to bloated government spending is like saying Bill Clinton has chosen to stop gawking at every skirt that passes his way..
ain’t gonna happen.
txnativegop wrote: “I sometimes wonder if the powers that be in the Democratic Party are ever embarrassed by the people they nominate?”
..... Judging from the past three presidential campaigns, apparently not.
Where past the shearing tables. Now we enter the slaughter house.
The only reason for this ridiculous “cut” is to manufacture a headline that will stay in people’s minds. “Hey, Obama really is doing something about out of control spending.”
Perpetual campaigning. It’s the only thing he’s good at.
It’s obvious that the Sepia Savior knows nothing about government contracting.
I am voing to vomit...or drink.
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I opted to drink...bourbon...which is something I hardly ever do anymore. I have a terrible headache, maybe a migraine but I have never been prone to headaches and don’t know how to recognize a migraine. I don’t know how much more of this insanity I can stand. Right now if someone would just slap hell out of me I would say, “Thanks, I needed that.”
Obama must think were all fools.
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Not ALL of us! But at this point he KNOWS that more than fifty percent of us are about as smart as a cabbage.
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