{"id":58029,"date":"2015-02-02T12:01:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58029"},"modified":"2015-02-02T12:01:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:01:33","slug":"obama-asks-congress-to-bust-spending-caps-for-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58029","title":{"rendered":"Obama asks Congress to bust spending caps for defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that in the budget that is being delivered to Congress today from the White House asks for 38 billion dollars more in defense spending than is currently allowed by law. Mostly, the spending is to pay for half-assing the war against terror over the last few years. As a smarter man once said, the enemy gets a vote in deciding when a war ends. Because the last two presidents and the last four Congresses weren’t committed to that war, it continues. <\/p>\n

Defense is one of the few things that the Constitution says that government should be doing for the People, and it’s being done on the cheap and on credit cards. Imagine putting your mortgage and your food bills on credit cards to worry about paying it somewhere down the road while you load up on fancy cars and big screen TVs, too. That’s what is happening to the Federal budget. Instead of doing the necessary things like defense, the government is farting around with healthcare, free cell phones and needless food stamps – things Americans always did for themselves without freebies from Uncle Sugar.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, liberal Democrats, eager to fend off the Republican critique that excessive domestic spending and government waste have caused the Pentagon\u2019s budget woes, cite the supporters of the 2003 Iraq war as the real problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the same guys who voted for a war in Iraq and forgot how it was going to be paid for,\u201d said Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.), a possible Democratic presidential candidate. \u201cYou know how it\u2019s paid for? It\u2019s paid for on the credit card. We don\u2019t know how much it will cost by the time we take care of the last veteran .?.?. $3 trillion or $4 trillion. They weren\u2019t worried about that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess that Bernie would rather have Saddam Hussein back in power in Iraq – you know he misses the 90s when Hussein would mass his troops on the Kuwait border and we’d spend billions moving troops to Kuwait to stare at the sand. Or he misses Hussein’s air defenses shooting at US and NATO partners as they protected the Kurds. Maybe he misses al Qaeda building up in northern Iraq. Not to mention the $25,000 bounty he paid to Palestinian suicide bombers’ families in Israel.<\/p>\n

And, oh, yeah, Mr. Sanders, all of that social spending that you’re doing for Obama phones and 3x\/day school lunch programs is going on a credit card, too. Of course, Sanders wants to raise taxes on working Americans to pay for all of that, compounding the need for Federal spending on social programs.<\/p>\n

Sanders is as much a coward on cutting social spending as the Republicans. But our national defense can’t keep being the scapegoat for the country’s budget woes. I know this is obvious to my readers, but maybe we have so many problems with our security suddenly because both sides are slashing national defense with reckless abandon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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