Faced with continued resistance to approve the record fiscal year 2011 military budget, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates lashed House Republicans, accusing them of not supporting the war.
Gates went on to insist that those calling for a cut in the record budget were “disconnected from the real world.” Several freshmen Republicans have called for such a cut as part of the effort to curb the massive budget deficit.
The Pentagon, which is still operating at the levels of funding from fiscal year 2010, itself a record level, insists that the lack of an increase has created a “crisis,” including preventing them from buying a new submarine they had their eyes on.
Despite Gates having touted “cuts” in military spending, he only ever really changed future military budgets to new records from theoretical, even larger amounts. Either way, the deficit continues to soar and the administration appears likely to cotinue to face calls for real life cuts instead of record budget after record budget.
I wonder how they going to fund their bogus wars when the US$$$ will collapse by the middle of this year.
Those submarines are vital to fight the war in AfPak. The freedom fighters there can't dig deep enough to plant IED that would sink the Submarines that Patreaus,I guess, has determined vital to defeating the Taliban/al queada. Or do these submarines protect the worldwide investments of the INTERNATIONAL CORPORATOCRACY WEALTHY PREDATORY CAPITALIST WELFARE KINGS, many of which pay no USG taxes but are still protected by the Pentagon protection racket scheme of; fund US, the pentagon, for protection or else……! Since the Pentagon is funded by the proceeds of the Treasury bond for the national debt, declared to be a threat to national security by Admiral Mullen, Gates want to continue to fund a threat to national security, the Pentagon, to protect US from threats to national security.Huh!
It would be gratifying to see this bastard Gates spending the rest of his miserable, stinking, putrid life in solitary at Gitmo being waterboarded on a daily basis, along with his johns from the "defense" industry.
Disconnected from the real world? I suggest Mr. Gates check his mirror.
The idiots in Washington spending trillions we don't have on this lumbering empire that is crumbling (thank God for that!) before our eyes, are the ones living in a bubble. It is clear that these knucklehead are unwilling to face the obvious, so I guess a little economic reality is going to blindside them. This should be very entertaining.
They'll just take the $$$ from other, less "necessary" social programs. The wars must continue forward…
That's where the graft and corruption is.the Pentagon/spy agencies.
Did he really single out "House Republicans"? Because while a few of the newer GOPers have called for restraining military spending; for the most part it's still a slightly larger number of "liberal" Democrats who have made such calls (as they always do until the vote comes and they pony up.)
SecDef Bobby pitches histrionic hissy fit. "Gimme my MONEY! It's mine. All of it! Don't make me have to break out the drones."
We need to spend more on the military! In fact all our money should go to it!!!
That's what the Drones are for, Termination.