Comments on: A thought

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:47:15 +0000

He actually may cut some projects outside of defense. Like, probably, any piece of pork one of the pretend Republicans put into any approved bill because it’s like, pork ya know, but all the lard ladled by any donkey was in fact necessary to the economic well-being of the nation…

By: Tom the Redhunter

Tom the Redhunter — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:03:30 +0000

Sister, Obama is not going to cut back any programs at all, and here's why: 1) It's mostly an accounting trick. See this post at NRO's The Corner and this one over at The Heritage Foundation. 2) What he does actually cut will be mostly military programs like the badly needed F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II, Virginia class subs, V-22 Osprey, DDG-1000 Zumwalt and missile defense. He hasn't announced any of it yet, but just you wait.

By: sears poncho

sears poncho — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:16:57 +0000

Sister, I’m gonna disagree with you. It almost goes without saying that he is going to take an axe to the defense budget. As to other programs, he ain’t saying boo to anyone. I mean aren’t they double dipping on some 100 programs between HR-1 and the $411 Billion dollar budget to get us through the rest of the year? It’s been said somewhere else on the internet, but it seems that the only thing the government has learned so far is that they can borrow more than they ever imagined. And that’s probably not a good thing.

By: Lorica

Lorica — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:05:12 +0000

Wasn’t this 2 trillion over a period of 10 years?? If so, then it will mostly be Defense cuts. Which if you cut 200B out of an annual 500B Defense budget, most of it being Iraq expeditures, you will get to the 2T pretty quick and not upset to many apple carts. The Navy’s newsest AC Gerald R. Ford will probabably be scrapped that’s 400B to 500B right there. He probably would try to stop the George H.W. Bush, but it is almost completed, and crew training has begun.

I have seen commercials asking people to call their congressional representatives asking them to not cancel F22 orders, at 142M each. If the Air Force wants to replace the F15 fleet with F22s, then you are looking at a purchase of another 600 Raptors, which is the latest data the Air Force has.

You know the big question asked during the campaign was, “Do you feel safer??”. Well if these cuts take place, I can tell you the answer under the Obama presidency is a definate NO. – Lorica

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:39:38 +0000

Yep, he’ll definitely make some big cuts there, unfortunately, but I forsee him having to do so in other areas, too, and that’s when all the ‘special interest’ groups are going to start howling. Those groups won’t give a rip about defense cuts, but they will raise the roof on the other stuff.

By: Severian

Severian — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:32:16 +0000

Unfortunately, the money he’s found that he can “trim” will all be out of the defense budget, you know, about the only thing the govt spends money on that it’s required to do so by the Constitution.