Defense Official: Obama Calling for Defense Budget Cuts - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com

The Obama administration has asked the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon's budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent -- about $55 billion -- a senior U.S. defense official tells FOX News.....
...this is the old Clinton strategy, take from the military and give it to your constituents. Under Clinton: In
less than three years, manpower decreased
from 2.1 million to 1.6 million. That decrease was the foundation upon
which stood Al Gore's purported "reinvention" of government. Of the
305,000 employees removed from the federal payroll, 286,000 (or 90%)
were military cuts.The statistics for America's defense during the
Clinton years reveal the deep-seated animosity of the administration
toward those who served in the military. The Army was cut from 18
divisions to 12. The Navy was reduced from 546 ships to 380. Air Force
flight squadrons were cut from 76 to 50.While the U.S. military
was used as a 'meals on wheels' service by the Clinton administration
in its nation building adventures, the military had its own
humanitarian crises at home on its own bases. The pay freeze instituted
by Clinton was imposed on a military in which 80 percent of all troops
earned $30,000 per year or less. Food stamp applications soared and
re-enlistment rates dropped.
So as Clinton did, Obama has taken the cue... instead of using the military and it's contractors to actually create jobs. Obama is going to cut into the military and destroy jobs. When an increase in the size of our fighting forces would bolster our defense and help many who might find it hard to get a job in these times, the logical thing to do would be increase not decrease the military budget and manpower.
We have noted before on this blog that this is the one place Obama could find ready cash for his projects, among those: giving money to Acorn, building water parks in Florida, more money to planned parenthood, global warming scammers, here's $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn't turned a
profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million
for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the
Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion
for carbon-capture demonstration projects. There's even $650 million on
top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion
coupons. all those who supported his candidacy will be rewarded, those who opposed him will be punished and indeed the military voted overwhelmingly for McCain/Palin. A man who has never served in the military, never defended his country, who has no ties to the military, will do as the draft dodger Clinton did, take from our most trusted section of society and give it to the most radical and lest deserving.
Hopefully the American public will come to see Obama for what is he, a socialist and a man who feels no patriotic duty to his country. (remember he didn't want to wear the flag pin, until his handlers, said look dude....people gonna think you are not a patriot.)
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