The GOP Blew up a Balanced Budget, threw young Americans into the meat grinder needlessly in Iraq, and created the American Depression 2.0, and they want the keys to the car again? They shouldn't even be allowed to sit in the passenger seat. They should sit in the Child seat in the back, well restraint!
"Today, we are just months away from an arbitrary, across-the-board budget reduction that would saddle the military with a trillion dollars in cuts, severely shrink our force structure, and impair our ability to meet and deter threats,"
Blah...blah...blah...the dysfunctional congress made those cuts when they couldn't agree on sane budget cuts coupled with needed revenue increases -- although we do need to cut the bloated military-industrial complex spending of $1.3+ Trillion per year, and drastically!
Seems that willard romney is just another republican chickenhawk listening to dirty-dickie cheney and the 17 bush PNAC neocon foreign policy advisers he hired months ago, and wants more WARS and more military-industrial complex spending -- not the needed cuts!
speaking of national defense Dianne Feinstein the leader of the SEnate intelligence committee investigating the recent security leaks has found the white house responsible. We have president that is jeopordizing the national defense strategies of the US on multiple levels, his credibility is now gone if he ever had any in regards to national defense and the military.
nottblu, She didn't point the finger at Obama specifically and she didn't say all leaks were coming from the White House.
"The California lawmaker said she was certain that President Barack Obama, who receives a daily intelligence briefing, isn't disclosing secret information, but she was uncertain about others at the White House. "I don't believe for a moment that he goes out and talks about it," she said."
So, the only safe to say without doing a Michelle Bachmann on innocent people, is to follow the direct source that is supposedly apart of the Administration and then act on it and punish the correct guilty party.
Too bad that other people take the fall for those who are truly responsible such as the illegal outing of a covert CIA spy...ummmm...Dick Cheney.
So what is Romney's alternative? Basically, he wants to maintain DOD expenditures, keep tax cuts for the wealthy, make the rest of us pay for it, while continuing to send the nation into further fiscal deficit. Hopefully, these shrill baseless repug accusations will not be taken seriously. The rich need a return of the tax rates prior to the bush tax cuts that sent our nation into debt, not to mention his two unfunded wars. The repugs say we have a spending problem, no, we have a revenue problem. Revenues need to be raised. It is only in America that we see elected officials & citizens so greedy that they chose to drive the nation off a fiscal cliff as the repugs did last year with the debt crisis. All of this is fine talk from a man who went to France prosyletizing to avoid military service in Vietnam. I served during Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, First Gulf War, and even volunteered to go to Bosnia. I personally saw the human toll on our troops from these conflicts--something most Americans are clueless about, including Romney. His posturing is patently shameful. Respectfully, retired US Army Medical Officer.
So, Romney doesn't want to cut the largest of all socialist programs in the States? Interesting, and yet so typical of traditional Republican rationale: save the machine that kills but cut the institutions that saves, protect nurture American lives.
The military is a huge socialist machine. Under the umbrella of the military are hospitals and prevention healthcare, a large system for education, housing, pension, enforcement (military police and National Guard), stretching into the military manufacturing industries ...etc. Now, I'm all for that but I find it ironic that Romney wants to cut the same services for civilians.
All very true, I used to catch flak for pointing out we had great American "socialism" in the service with free unlimited healthcare, post housing, cheap stuff from the commissary & PX, great education with DOD schools, and a very generous retirement. I enjoyed all that, and now have really generous VA benefits. Neocons complain about European style socialism, but we more than match it in our military services. It was (is) great. No complaints here as I now make more than I did on active duty with military retirement, VA entitlement, & Social Security. Respectfully, retired US Army Medical Officer.
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Blah...blah...blah...the dysfunctional congress made those cuts when they couldn't agree on sane budget cuts coupled with needed revenue increases -- although we do need to cut the bloated military-industrial complex spending of $1.3+ Trillion per year, and drastically!
Seems that willard romney is just another republican chickenhawk listening to dirty-dickie cheney and the 17 bush PNAC neocon foreign policy advisers he hired months ago, and wants more WARS and more military-industrial complex spending -- not the needed cuts!
She didn't point the finger at Obama specifically and she didn't say all leaks were coming from the White House.
"The California lawmaker said she was certain that President Barack Obama, who receives a daily intelligence briefing, isn't disclosing secret information, but she was uncertain about others at the White House. "I don't believe for a moment that he goes out and talks about it," she said."
So, the only safe to say without doing a Michelle Bachmann on innocent people, is to follow the direct source that is supposedly apart of the Administration and then act on it and punish the correct guilty party.
Too bad that other people take the fall for those who are truly responsible such as the illegal outing of a covert CIA spy...ummmm...Dick Cheney.
The military is a huge socialist machine. Under the umbrella of the military are hospitals and prevention healthcare, a large system for education, housing, pension, enforcement (military police and National Guard), stretching into the military manufacturing industries ...etc. Now, I'm all for that but I find it ironic that Romney wants to cut the same services for civilians.