Obama announces Pentagon budget cuts

[Bronx33]

President Obama announced a new military strategy on Thursday that will cut the Pentagon budget by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.


THE TIP OF THE SPEAR JUST GOT DULL.

[W*GS]

Good.

The DoD is the biggest source of waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government.

[Bronx33]

20%

[W*GS]

Originally Posted by Bronx33

20%

It's a start.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Originally Posted by Bronx33

20%

Closer to 30-40%........


Budget Breakdown for 2012

Defense-related expenditure	2012 Budget request & Mandatory spending[20][21]	Calculation[22][23]
DOD spending	$707.5 billion	Base budget + "Overseas Contingency Operations"
FBI counter-terrorism	$2.7 billion	At least one-third FBI budget.
International Affairs	$5.6–$63.0 billion	At minimum, foreign arms sales. At most, entire State budget
Energy Department, defense-related	$21.8 billion
Veterans Affairs	$70.0 billion
Homeland Security	$46.9 billion
NASA, satellites	$3.5–$8.7 billion	Between 20% and 50% of NASA's total budget
Veterans pensions	$54.6 billion
Other defense-related mandatory spending	$8.2 billion
Interest on debt incurred in past wars	$109.1–$431.5 billion	Between 23% and 91% of total interest
Total Spending	$1.030–$1.415 trillion

[Rigs11]

Righties keep asking to balance the budget.this is a step in the right direction.tea party thoughts?anyone?

[Bronx33]

Originally Posted by W*GS

It's a start.

ok clown now post how much the military spends ( within our budget) i'll wait

[Bronx33]

Originally Posted by Rigs11

Righties keep asking to balance the budget.this is a step in the right direction.tea party thoughts?anyone?

So protecting your a** isn't a priority

[elsid13]

Originally Posted by Bronx33

ok clown now post how much the military spends ( within our budget) i'll wait

The DoD Defense Budget make up 20% (that doesn't include the War Supplement Funds) of the annual Federal Budget.

Medicare/Medicad is is 22%
Social Security is 20%
National Interest is 6%

That over 60% of the budget.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget...Id=budget-full

So unless we are willing to allow the Bush Tax Cuts to expire, and close tax breaks, we need to reduce defense spending.

[Rigs11]

Originally Posted by Bronx33

So protecting your a** isn't a priority

Ahh yes there it is.instead let's cut more social programs right?because we need more nukes.So you scream about Balancing the budget,then obama does but you don't like it,Obama wants to tax the rich to pay off some of the debt but you don't like that either.You truly belong to the party of no

[BroncoInferno]

Originally Posted by Bronx33

So protecting your a** isn't a priority

Of the top 50 military spending nations in the world, we spend more than the other 49 combined. I don't think these cuts are going to put much of dent in our lead.

[Bronx33]

Originally Posted by BroncoInferno

Of the top 50 military spending nations in the world, we spend more than the other 49 combined. I don't think these cuts are going to put much of dent in our lead.

and?

[BroncoInferno]

Originally Posted by Bronx33

and?

And I'm curious as to how the cuts are going to harm our ability to "protect our ass." We still have a commanding lead in military spending world wide.

[barryr]

Hmm, so while there is high unemployment, we will now make it less of an option for those to join the military too where they could have had jobs that way. The bozo in the WH is the Jobs President though. What a idiot joke as well as his supporters. He and his dullards are just making sure more and more people are dependent on social welfare programs.

[BroncoInferno]

Originally Posted by barryr

Hmm, so while there is high unemployment, we will now make it less of an option for those to join the military too where they could have had jobs that way. The bozo in the WH is the Jobs President though. What a idiot joke as well as his supporters. He and his dullards are just making sure more and more people are dependent on social welfare programs.

You rightards are a bunch of hypocrites. You are all for spending cuts, as long as it's a program you don't like that helps poor people. Pathetic.

[Play2win]

Hallelujah!!!

Somebody finally got Eisenhower's memo.

Cutting Defense and investing in Higher Education will make this country strong again.

[DenverBrit]

Originally Posted by barryr

Hmm, so while there is high unemployment, we will now make it less of an option for those to join the military too where they could have had jobs that way. The bozo in the WH is the Jobs President though. What a idiot joke as well as his supporters. He and his dullards are just making sure more and more people are dependent on social welfare programs.

It's amazing how often you evangelical right wingers complain about overseas wars and can whine about cutting the absurdly bloated military in the same breath.

Make your ****ing minds up, you're giving the impression that you're all stupid.

You can't reduce government without reducing the military. Got it??

[DenverBrit]

Originally Posted by Play2Win

Hallelujah!!!

Somebody finally got Eisenhower's memo.

Cutting Defense and investing in Higher Education will make this country strong again.

How right he was.

[Boomhauer]

I've heard 25k Army and 20k Marines will be fired, resulting in a few billion saved/yr down the road, and hiring of more special forces. But that's essentially meaningless savings with meaningful reduction in capability. Let me know when the rest of the $48bill to $98billion/year in cuts is outlined so a discussion can take place on Little-O's priorities and the effects on our Military, international presence, terrorism industrial complex and military industry because what's been revealed so far is about as relevant and interesting as the water usage of various flowers in front of the Capitol.

Until something worth while hits print, this thread will remain just a political and academic soapbox with the usually adolescent and idiotic whining, inciting and fingerpointing by the psychotic liberal faction of d-bags here.

[Smiling Assassin27]

Obama's budget process:

[Rohirrim]

The Right Wing is attacking Obama for carrying out Rumsfeld's military plan and passing the Heritage Foundation's health care plan.

I tell ya. We're living in Wonderland.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by Rigs11

Righties keep asking to balance the budget.this is a step in the right direction.tea party thoughts?anyone?

Defense spending absolutely needs to be cut.

[Boomhauer]

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Re; "...with the usually adolescent and idiotic whining, inciting and fingerpointing by the psychotic liberal faction of d-bags here."

LABF'er and Spidey have yet to join the party. You should log in your other two screen names to leave a reply from each.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Originally Posted by BroncoInferno

You rightards are a bunch of hypocrites. You are all for spending cuts, as long as it's a program you don't like that helps poor people. Pathetic.

This.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Originally Posted by Boomhauer

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Thanks for giving us some insight re: how people with Down's Syndrome process information.