[NormsRevenge]

Pigeon feed.

[Tzimisce]

OUR PRESIDENT IS A F**KING LUNATIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[K-oneTexas]

We knew this would happen.

Cut contractors back. Add that to positions and contracts that haven’t been filled since he came into office.

Many things not getting done so employees are not being hired. Good, until you realize it things like Boarder Patrol and other DHS positions and contracts.

[jersey117]

Just another side show.

[Frantzie]

They might as well shut down NASA too.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Here is where they gut Defense spending folks. Right on schedule. Blame the military for consuming too much. Jimmy Carter all over again. If you are in straight line DoD acquisition better start building your parachute.

[DeaconRed]

"OBAMA TAKES AIM AT GOV OVERSPENDING"

Start with our money you are spending to get your worthless healthcare bill.
$300M to LA Unknown amt to NE
Unknown amt to many others. . . . .

[Truth is a Weapon]

It is also silly to target a method of purchasing by the Government. You need to look through the method to see what is being bought.

That is like looking at my budget and seeing that I paid for too many things with checks so I’m going to cut my check writing by 25%. Just silly.

[rbg81]

Wow—this sounds......unprecedented!

[DoughtyOne]

He will save $40 billion by 2011.

He will have spent something like $4 trillion by then.

I guess this does balance out... /s

[pallis]

This means more military cuts while our mafiosos rob us blind. Military cuts will mean more for the DC syndicate to steal.

[silverleaf]

HALLIBURTON!

Cheney! Rove! Blame Bush!

There, I just condensed libspeak speech down to 5 words.

[TChris]

"This is an inexcusable waste of money," Obama said.

And, hey, who knows inexcusable wastes of money like Barack Hussein Obama?

This is his SPECIALTY!

[mulligan]

That is a lie. That is pure BS. He is a liar. Obama is a liar. He is full of BS.

[NormsRevenge]

The Senate bill would save the country money.

Say that with a straight face.

U.S. President Barack Obama (C) makes remarks on his meeting with Democratic Senators about health care legislation in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington December 15, 2009. Obama made a strong push for passage of healthcare reform legislation on Tuesday, saying a bill before the Senate met all of his criteria and would save the country money. From L-R: Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Max Baucus (D-MT), Obama, Harry Reid (D-NV), and Dick Durbin (D-IL). REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH IMAGES OF THE DAY)

[tx_eggman]

24 departments have identified more than 19 billion dollars in savings for this year alone

[ravingnutter]

Union payback, plain and simple.

From a post of mine on the 18th of Dec:

I first heard about "in-sourcing" being done by the USAF a few days ago. Seems the USAF is taking jobs that are currently being done by a contractor and making them civilian positions. They are aggressively recruiting people away from the contractors in a manner that has been described as unethical at best. A very well-known local contractor that I am aquainted with recently lost over 100 employees in this manner within a very short period of time. In a recent speech, Gates revealed he is converting 11,000 contractors and hiring an additional 9,000 government acquisition professionals by 2015 – beginning with 4,100 in FY10.

Sure, this will save some money in the long run, but their attempts to put everyone on the goverment payroll...and subsequently in the union...are quite disconcerting, even professionals in the procurement field are stating they need to slow down and proceed with caution. Stan Soloway, CEO of the Professional Services Council stated that "Cost performance,[and] cost analysis evaluation [is]lacking" and "without appropriate analytical rigor and discipline, it could become an exorbitantly expensive undertaking that does nothing to improve the performance of government and has an unfair and undesirable effect on scores of companies and thousands of taxpayers who work for them". Public sector unions, on the other hand, are elated, as this is payback for their support of Obama.

Next on their agenda:

The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009

The bill provides that a federal employee and his or her domestic partner be entitled to benefits available to a married federal employee and his or her spouse. Surprisingly, it was sponsored by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Ranking Member Susan Collins (R-ME). Lieberman is a Dem, so it is expected with him, but there is no excuse for Collins.

So...not only are they going to convert jobs to the public sector and unionize those folks, they are going to expand benefits to "partners". So much for the cost savings they are trying to tout.

[keepitreal]

Monday early morning pass the healthcare budget buster, with the King’s blessing, Monday afternoon, the King touts budget restraint. What a joke. The public isn’t stupid.

[Oldpuppymax]

Oh please!!

[The Comedian]

The American military must be disarmed.

This is the means to do so.

The Communist in Chief is handing us on a platter to our enemies foreign and domestic, of which he is the most dangerous.

So America, this is it.

The government will not protect you, the GOP will not protect you, and the local tax assessor won't protect you.

You are cattle to be fed and fed upon.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[ThomasPaine2000]

This “privatization” and contracting goes straight to VP Al Gore and his “A-76” project. I guess the critics were right after all...