The Obama administration has asked the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon’s budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent — about $55 billion — a senior U.S. defense official tells FOX News.<\/p>\n
Last year’s defense budget was $512 billion. Service chiefs and planners will be spending the weekend “burning the midnight oil” looking at ways to cut the budget — looking especially at weapons programs, the defense official said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I realize that as with any government program there is fat in the DoD budget but we are at war. <\/p>\n
Cutting defense right now sends a dangerous message to our enemies around the world.<\/p>\n
Why do I call this a \u201credistribution scam\u201d instead of just good fiscal stewardship? Because I have more than two brain cells and I can see when someone is pissing on my leg and telling me it\u2019s raining.<\/p>\n
The defense cuts will cost jobs; lots of good paying (and likely unionized) jobs. These are middle class and upper middle class jobs for the most part.<\/p>\n
So where does this windfall of federal money (at the cost of the middle class) actually go?<\/p>\n
Look no further than the Democrat proposed, pork filled stimulus package that will stimulate nothing but Pelosi\u2019s dream to drive the United States into a European Socialist state.<\/p>\n
$83 billion in welfare payments
\n$20 billion for food stamps<\/p>\n
Increases in welfare and food stamps will not create one job and in fact discourages one from seeking a job. <\/p>\n
Cutting $50 million from defense will cost jobs and weaken a nation.<\/p>\n
Feel free to draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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