{"id":188917,"date":"2010-07-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/10\/barack-obama-in-trying-for-credibility-in-defense-destroys-our-military\/"},"modified":"2010-07-10T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T11:00:00","slug":"barack-obama-in-trying-for-credibility-in-defense-destroys-our-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/10\/barack-obama-in-trying-for-credibility-in-defense-destroys-our-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama In Trying for Credibility in Defense, Destroys Our Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because Barack Obama and His Stupid Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> are terrified about being accused of being soft on defense,<sup>*<\/sup> that his future budgets will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-07-06\/weapons-budget-grows-amid-obama-cuts-pentagon-comptroller-says.html\">by expensive high tech weapons systems at the expense of operations, maintenance, and readiness<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>U.S. spending on weapons through 2016 likely will grow faster than the overall defense budget, which will have annual increases of only about 1 percent above inflation, according to Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal would be to get forces and modernization to grow by 2 or 3 percent,\u201d Hale said in an interview, while saying that \u201cit\u2019s not a given.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Obama intends to spend money on crap we <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">don&#8217;t<\/span> need, thereby diverting money from the crap we <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">do<\/span> need<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the fact that we are already spending more money on defense than at any time since the end of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> World War, and he&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">still<\/span> trying to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">increase<\/span> the defense budget in real terms just buggers the mind.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans support wasteful defense spending because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s easy to demagogue.<\/li>\n<li>They find defense contractors an easy touch for donations.<\/li>\n<li>They <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">want<\/span> to ruin our finances so that we have to make cuts in social programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Democrats support wasteful defense spending because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They are afraid that Republicans will call them names.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Truth be told, I am not sure which one is more pathetic.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">It won&#8217;t work, the Republicans will run against you as soft on defense anyway.  As the saying goes, &#8220;The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Barack Obama and His Stupid Minions\u2122 are terrified about being accused of being soft on defense,* that his future budgets will by expensive high tech weapons systems at the expense of operations, maintenance, and readiness: U.S. spending on weapons through 2016 likely will grow faster than the overall defense budget, which will have annual &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1211,1008,978,982,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-defense","category-defense-procurement","category-politics","category-stupid","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}