McCain says Pentagon spending 'unsustainable'

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=3fe5e088bff8c284


Republican Sen. John McCain Tuesday said the massive Pentagon budget for the war in Iraq can't be sustained because of the need to replace weapons.

"We have unsustainable defense spending," said McCain, a chief proponent of military acquisition reform. "Refurbishment or replacement sooner than planned is putting further pressure on DOD's investment accounts. We cannot sustain the number of weapons programs that are in the program of record."

The Arizona Republican said the Defense Department spent $291 billion on the top five weapons systems in 2000 but the top five weapons systems in 2005 cost nearly $550 billion. "One of those top five systems, the FA-22, has seen unit costs increase almost 190 percent," he said

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But john you were a Hawk but honey it costs money to go to war as well as man power!!! Ya were screwed!!! Thanks John for noticing and you helped!!!

[tavalon]

1. Um, duh, John. n/t

[Porcupine]

18. S'okay really. The whole economy is unsustainable.

The American people, myself included, have taken to gluttony with a sustained fanatacism that was beyond comprehension even twenty years ago. The whole damn thing is supported by never-ending loans from the future and imports from China.

It cannot last. Why not just let the whole thing collapse at once rather than nitpicking this one little bit.

:sarcasm off:

[melnjones]

2. I like McCain.

I'm sure I'll get beat for saying that in here, but I do. Don't always agree with him, but still can't help but like him.

[Psephos]

3. Me too. n/t

[melnjones]

4. yay!!!!!!!!!!!!! nt

[karynnj]

6. Why would any Democrat like McCain

Don't fall for the MSM image - he's pretty RW and is not as clean as the media likes to pretend. He was one of the Keating 5 - who led to the S&L crisis. (He has more in common with Mr Potter than with George)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5376962&mesg_id=5376962

[Voltaire99]

11. Agreed--he's a crook who never met a war he didn't like.

The Democratic wing of the party isn't falling for him.

[Leilani]

13. For your info

McCain, along with John Glenn was CLEARED in the Keating 5 scandal.

The lies on this board are continuous.

He was never found to have done anything for Charles Keating, however the appearances looked bad. He turned his errors into Finance Reform, with Feingold, Shays & Meehan.

It hasn't worked as well as hoped, but he tried.

All politicians make mistakes...McCain is one of the few who admits his.

[Warren Stupidity]

16. He is an asshole who made man-love-hugs with

the person who called him a nutjob in the primaries.

[melnjones]

26. thank you. nt

[slay]

9. McCain helped get Bush re-elected

Any man who will sell out to help Bush get re-elected will NEVER EVER get my support or vote. He does just enough to fool SOME Democrats into thinking he's an OK guy. He's not. :mad:

[Mizmoon]

24. McCain is a no good rotten Keating Five thief

who, along with his buddy Neil Bush, stole my grandparent's retirement account which was in one of their looted S&Ls. Never ever forget that McCain is a scumbag.

[Charlie Brown]

5. I'd like him a lot more if he didn't want to escalate the war n/t

[lumpy]

8. No shit, little John.

we cannot afford to take care of our flood victims. I have never trusted McCain, he's unstable. Ever since that picture of him hugging his benevolent leader, I have no respect for the man.

[Up2Late]

7. But Hey! That's a risk * and his...

...Cabal of War Criminals (CWC) are willing to take.

I have faith they can do it.

[gratuitous]

10. "Further pressure on DOD's investment accounts"?

Why doesn't the Defense Department invest in Halliburton? Just three short years ago, Halliburton was on the brink of bankruptcy, and might even have had to default on stock options and severance pay to its former executives. Now they're making more money than ever!

Or how about having an investment account with an oil company or two? They just had a very profitable quarter.

Soldier futures are way, way down, though.

[leesa]

12. Aw shut up, ya bastard, you voted for all this crap!

[lebkuchen]

14. He represents a state full of geriatrics

who don't benefit from billions of dollars of defense weaponry.

[Warren Stupidity]

15. Gee John, just wake up?

Perhaps you can explain your voting for massive tax cuts and unsustainable war bills?

No? Can't explain? Don't worry, nobody in the whore-media will ask.

[lovuian]

17. I got a suggestion for ya John GET OUT OF IRAQ and

TAX the RICH CORPORATIONS!!!

[IndianaGreen]

19. We chose Empire over a Republic

Empires always collapse from the moment they reach their peak. Bush has merely accelerated the process of decline and fall.

[DRoseDARs]

20. You mean the Ghost of the U.S.S.R. gets the last laugh?

Who'da thunk it, that massive miltary expenditures would begin to strain a government's budget? :shrug:

[lovuian]

23. You can't starve your people for the military!!!

and this is whats going to happen!!!

[kineneb]

25. Nah, ghost of Roman Empire

Overextended land area (foreign bases), over-spending (small wars everywhere), internal corruption (hail Caesar/Shrub), cronyism (all in the -oil- family)

...hello Barbarians!

[hadrons]

21. McCain will ask those extra soldiers he wants in Iraq to fight for free

[indepat]

22. Virtually everything this administration has done is unsustainable

[TexasLawyer]

28. exactly.

Unless, of course, we do away with all social programs including Medicare, Social Security, AFDC, WIC, all spending on roads, bridges and other infrastructure, everything except military spending.

But then again that's Grover Norquist's dream.

[classysassy]

27. John " in patronizing a whore"McCain

you are just another rupug whoremonger.