Speaking today after a meeting at the Pentagon, President Obama pushed the idea that Congress needs to completely do away with even the pretense of sequestration with respect to military spending, saying they have to prevent the “draconian cuts” mandated.
Sequestration, agreed to because of a rising deficit, was supposed to slow the rate of growth for military spending. The reality is that Congress has ignored the sequestration rules in military budget deals anyhow, though even this higher rate of growth was too slow for the Pentagon’s tastes, and they complained of “cuts,” which are only cuts compared to a hypothetical even less affordable budget.
Congress has been champing at the bit since the new war with ISIS was launched to use it as an excuse to do away with the rules even on paper, and to return to the days when the ability to pay for spending increases was even less of a factor than it is now.
Obama insisted in the new speech that the military needs “equipment and the technology that’s necessary for them to be able to succeed” in the current war, while Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned major projects could be stalled if the rate of spending didn’t grow faster.
Hagel had initially presented the plan for sequestration as primarily reducing the number of ground troops, which seemingly wouldn’t be a problem if the administration was sincere about the current war not involving a US ground invasion of Iraq or Syria. Yet officials instead are now hyping a reduction in the rate of new warplanes acquired, along with ships used to launch missile strikes.
Either way, the funding for the actual war is coming out of an entirely separate budget, the Overseas Contingencies budget, which is itself already immune to sequestration and is seemingly once again on the rise.
Does this guy do anything other than obey orders from the war mafia? The message the mobsters sent was received clearly…the Secret Service lapses…they can get to him.
This what happens when Zionists take over. The servants of the mafia cartel and deep state run the show and barely can conceal themselves. Everything becomes a sick joke that no one laughs at, as we move further away, down the memory hole, becoming a country no one recognizes.
The two Presidents of the 21st century are spineless losers, and not by accident. They do whatever they are told or someone they love meets with an accident.
It makes you wonder how spineless they really are though if they are faced with these public and outrageous threats, threats from which the people assigned to protect you have made it also publicly evident they are not going to protect you.
LOL at the use of Draconian when it comes to anything affecting the military
"NOTHING LEFT TO CUT" (sic)
"CUT TO THE BONE AND BEYOND" (sic)
"WAR SHOULD REKINDLE THE ECONOMY" (Krugman)
(400 BILLION Bucks) JSF jets that were grounded because of faulty oil filters,
1500 Humvees, and 52 Howitzers ISIS had grabbed in Iraq, worth (360 MILLION), are
examples how war profiteers, thieves, and gangsters have gouged American taxpayers.
The Military Industrial Complex's goal is perpetual war, that has already bankrupted
this country. Each month, the Feds print (90 BILLION Bucks) of paper money to keep
this corrupt empire afloat. Money we don't have.
Oboomer, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is a stooge for the MIC. He will likely
go down in history as being one of the biggest shams foisted on the American people.
This guy's talk about (Change) was nothing but lies, subterfuge, and BS propaganda.
Just say NO
Are endless wars necessary in order to get increased military spending, or is increased military spending necessary to wage endless wars? Which is the goal and which is the means?
Confused in South America
For Americans only one thing matters–money. But for israelis, Saudis and others who manipulate the US government at their will, it's about religion and ideology.
that damn draco and those damn athenians, claiming laws should be followed! nonsense.
Smokescreen hiding a rich man’s anarchy — What government is all about
Sequestration was suppose to guarantee the public that the republicans would not get away with taking a hatchet to social programs only, namely the reduction in funding for both the military and social programs had to always be equal.
Problem is, from our genocide of native Americans to our genocide of the natives in Palestine, surely our government was created for the purpose of brutal imperialism and nothing short of a Revolution will change that.
This guy turned into George Bush Jr. except that he approves of gay marriage and abortions. Oh and he's half-black.
The only way to start to save the American Republic is to cut military spending by 50%, otherwise the US Empire with all its resultant chaos will continue until its bitter and catastrophic end.
The new war against a group of nobodies who's numbers compare to a small American town?