It’s time once again for a new annual military spending bill. Not only has President Obama decided that he is going to once again ignore spending caps and seek $35 billion more in the baseline defense budget than the caps allow, he is also gunning for a record.
The $534 billion base defense budget will be largest in American history. surpassing the $530 billion he got in 2012. At least on paper, overall spending is supposed to be less than back then, as the emergency war funding tacked on top of that baseline budget was greater in 2012.
Yet the emergency funding for wars in 2016 is just a placeholder at this point, and almost always ends up far larger than anyone planned. The ISIS war is continuing to escalate, and where it will be by 2016 is anyone’s guess, but the smart money is on it being expensive.
$534 billion should be seen as a bare minimum the baseline budget will be as well, since Congress often decides to throw extra money into pet programs neither the administration or the Pentagon ever sought, and ends up delivering more money than requested.
I wouldn't give them a dime till those crooks can account for every single penny since, oh, let's say 2002.
Bend over. Time for some more quantitative easing.
Even if it grows some more its still more than enough to buy and/or renovate the stuff and provide the folks to wipe out everyone on earth.
A bargain at less than one hundred bucks a head I'd have to say.
Not to mention all the money for the military stashed in the Homeland Security, Veterans, and Energy Dept budgets.
Obama the man of war who received the nobel price of peace. It should be in guiness bool of records.
War is big business for the crooks in the Pentagon. They'll take every buck
Oboomer gives them, even though it will be squandered and p****d away on
bogus projects. There is no accountability with this scum that continues to
bilk the hard-working USG taxpayer.
"…continues to bilk the hard-working USG taxpayer." And generations of taxpayers yet to be born.
Glimmer of hope. If the Pentagon finally manages to spark WWIII, as they and their running dogs seem determined to do, then most of the generations yet to be born won't be around and the survivors will have nothing to eat except USG's IOUs.
Who were those guys that said…"we must give AmeriKa one, two, three, a hundred Vietnams?"
Damn they were pretty smart.
Those that fell into the trap? Like a snake eating its own tail?
Not so much.
its official, Americans are the dumbest people on earth! Keep waiting for your iphone 9! Idiots!
The biggest waster of tax payer money gets another blank check from the warmongers.