Budget Principles Are Not Worth Dead Soldiers

American Thinker ^ | February 14, 2018 | Daniel John Sobieski

[detective]

When Donald Trump was running for president he promised to end the sequestration caps on military spending and rebuild a depleted America military strained to the limit to meet the threats of radical Islamic terrorism, a rising China, a resurgent Russia, a lunatic North Kora, and a fanatical Iran. That $150 billion Obama released to Iran was roughly equivalent to the money lost to sequestration and Obama budget cuts, money that otherwise would have gone to military modernization to meet, among other threats, that of Iran.

[detective]

President Obama’s reckless disregard for military readiness destroyed the American military and national security.

President Obama had reduced the U.S. military to rubble. Trump pledged to eliminate the defense sequestration and reinitiate a policy of peace through strength.

[RatRipper]

That $150 billion Obama released to Iran was roughly equivalent to the money lost to sequestration and Obama budget cuts, money that otherwise would have gone to military modernization to meet, among other threats, that of Iran.

Zer0 is a serial traitor. He deserves the punishment that we mete out to traitors . . . he has earned it many times over.

[Jim W N]

1) The Delusional Lying Left couldn’t care less about dying American soldiers. Under Obama and with his help, they helped make it happen.

2) The Delusional Lying Left could care less about the deficit either. Heck, one of many of Obama’s lying doctrines was that deficit spending which he greatly encouraged “stimulated” the economy. The Delusional Lying Left only complains about the deficit now as a way to attack tax cuts.

BTW, deficits are not the problem. The mostly unconstitutional government is the problem followed by high taxes. Fix those and the feigned deficit argument will go away.

[Rashputin]

But Barry DID care about funding the military, HIS military in Iran, ISIS, Al Queda, etc. Any military that's fighting for Iz Lame and against the US.

Just look at the billions he and Brennan lavished on the Iz Lame Ick groups in Syria and you can see that Barry had nothing against "the military" per se, it's just our military that he hates.

[steel_resolve]

How much have we spent in treasure ‘protecting’ places like Germany? Start pulling troops and resources from there before anyone smears the blood of servicemen on their face and claims military poormouth.

[Grampa Dave]

Get our troops out of Europe and England/Scotland/Ireland. Bring them home to protect our borders and sea coasts/harbors.

Charge the Koreans and Japanese the cost of maintaining our troops there.

[steel_resolve]

Exactly.

[Jacquerie]

Carrier Air Wing One will not have the funds or parts to fly at all for four months . . .

To the Left, air-mailing $150 billion to Iran was a better investment.