War Spending Surges In Obama's Budget

[grahamhgreen]

Source: Politico

President Barack Obama’s new budget, to be released Monday, forecasts two consecutive years of near $160 billion in war funding, far more than he hoped when elected and only modestly less than the last years of the Bush Administration.

In 2011 alone, the revised numbers are triple what the president included in his spending plan a year ago. And the strain shows itself in new deficit projections, already hobbled by lagging revenues due to the weak economy.
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Obama has responded with a three-year domestic spending freeze impacting about $447 billion in annual appropriations. ..... The Environmental Protection Agency budget would be cut modestly, .......... Obama wants to dramatically ramp up the Energy Department’s credit budget... to extend tens of billions in loan guarantees to the nuclear power industry.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32272.html#ixzz0eG1QPNRG


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32272.html

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Remember - every time a gun is fired, or a village is bombed, someone makes money.

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

[DJ13]

1. No wonder he wants to cut entitlement programs

I thought I voted for a Democrat?

[emilyg]

2. kick

[babylonsister]

3. Politico and it's not even the a.m....and btw, FUCK Politico. Jobs...

was that mentioned? I dunno, cause politico sucks. BIG TIME.

Oh yea, $100B

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4251020

[Journeyman]

4. I said it in 2002 and every year since: These "wars" won't be over. . .

until they tear this country apart.

[glowing]

6. I almost would be glad to embrace that idea. I think we are too big to have effectual govt anymore.

Wars are the only thing considered as appropriate spending. D.C. politics is madness and has been for years. Maybe it is time for a seperation of the USA.. Its quite a large land mass. We have many states that are the same size of entire European countries. Maybe its time.

[Hardrada]

9. My thought is this will bring on chaos and an eventual Military coup d'etat

which will be WELCOMED if the generals or colonels can jail and prosecute as traitors the corrupt politicians and investment bankers and Rahm Emmanuel.

[sandnsea]

5. Less than Bush is a surge??

He cuts the deficit every year after this one... down to 3.9% of GDP - but this is what these asshats write?

"By the end of the decade, the gap again widens, and as a percentage of GDP, the average appears above the 3% target viewed as sustainable."

This is some sick sick shit going on in this country.

[alp227]

7. So messed up.

At least his budget did not SURPASS Bush's in defense spending.

[sandnsea]

8. It's a $3.8 trillion budget

It's not like he isn't making sure everybody gets the funding they need.

[grahamhgreen]

14. Not yet, anyway.... wait for the emergency supplemental! nt

[amborin]

10. $325 billion in 2010:

"* Of the $130 billion for Fiscal Year 2010 operations in Iraq and Afghanistan currently awaiting final approval by Congress, roughly half, or around $65 billion, will likely go to Afghanistan. This additional funding will not cover any further increases in troop levels that President Obama might request. Adding in the cost of 30,000 additional troops (an estimated $30 billion), together with Afghanistan's portion of the $130 billion, total funding for Afghanistan could exceed $325 billion in Fiscal Year 2010"

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/01

[grahamhgreen]

11. Why not make it $365b, a cool 1b/day, & blame the deficit on social progams?

[WVRICK13]

12. The Military Is In Control

of the country. When we cut social programs and increase the military budget we are told what id more important, the people or domination. I believe in the next ten years our country will stop pretending and a Pentagon General will announce his dictatorship. Easy formula continue to keep the people at a level they can barely exist and then take over.

[Vidar]

13. Score another one for the Nobel Joke.

[bertman]

15. Just yesterday, Roger Ailes, the FoxMeister, said that the most important things for America

are our country's security and national defense.

What more do you need to know?

[winyanstaz]

16. WARS! GOOD GOD! What are they good for?

ABSOLUTLY NOTHING!
Oh, except for making the rich richer and the poor deader and poorer and the taxpayers broke.