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Rise and Shine!

Posted 15 months ago|6 comments|566 views
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Remember the Chinese unveiling a new stealth fighter.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...

This new fighter is a vast technological advance of the Communist Chinese's military capacity. It could be a drastic tilt of military power and is an extraordinary threat to our entire Pacific Fleet, including our air craft carriers.

It is a big problem for the United States of America.

What is our President Obama's reaction to this threat to us?

I quote part of the following article:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/1...

"A Democratic aide said the budget would reduce Pentagon spending by $78 billion over five years.

Pentagon cuts would include the C-17 aircraft, the alternate engine to the Joint Strike Fighter and the Marine Expeditionary Vehicle that the Defense Department says it does not need..."

Hello America !?!?!

Rise and shine!

WAKE UP!!!!!!!
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15 months ago: So what are you saying. We SHOULD spend money on thingsa that the defense department thinks we dont need? Or are you trying to imply that the only cuts made should be made at the expense of the poor?
15 months ago: Slim.

Come on man.

Who do you think speaks for the dang defense department?

Captain Kangaroo?

Obama is the Defense Department.

Open your eyes man!
markbyrn
markbyrn
 Moderator
15 months ago: So you're saying we should do a Reagan and quadruple the national debt to win another cold war arms race? Where's the Tea Party rabble about fiscal responsibility?
15 months ago: Responsibility?

Huh?

What about national defense?

Absolutely do EVERYTHING Reagan did, and the dang national debt will GO AWAY.

Take off your blue tinted glasses.
15 months ago: Reaganomics is fiscal responsibility.

That includes military buildup.

It's called History.
Altruist
Altruist
Eugene, OR
15 months ago: Reagan also raised taxes because he saw that Reaganomics was doubling the national debt. To handle the debt all we need to do is increase the top tax rates to what they were before Reagan started the upward spiral of the debt.

History also showed that the Soviet Union collapsed because they spent too much on their military. We can no longer spend as much as the rest of the world combined. Military spending is the greatest threat to our freedom.

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes … known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

— James Madison, Political Observations, 1795

Even if we eliminate all discretionary spending but defense and law enforcement, we would still have a $284 billion deficit. Obviously we need to cut defense, and Obama is taking the first baby steps.

There is incredible waste in the military but there is no way to audit the funding or determine where waste is, so the first thing we need to do is have some mechanisms for accountability and cost effectiveness.

It will take 8-9 years before the jet which used stolen technology from one of our crashed F117's to be incorporated into their air force. Meanwhile we are spending about 10 times as much as they so they are not a threat.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/2...

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