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Post by heavyg on Feb 2, 2009 9:08:13 GMT -7
www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...e-budget-cuts/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. 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. Some overall budget figures are expected to be announced Monday. Obama met Friday at the White House with a small group of military advisers, including Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman, and Gen. Jim Jones, National Security Council chairman. FOX News' Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.
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Post by ArkCowboy on Feb 2, 2009 9:32:20 GMT -7
with the violence free elections just held in iraq justifying a smaller dependence on the US for security, and the already imminent down sizing of the US presence there, isn't there already going to be less spending for the military? seems to me like 10% should be a fairly easy thing to achieve with little impact on US defensive capabilities.
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Post by heavyg on Feb 2, 2009 9:59:55 GMT -7
with the violence free elections just held in iraq justifying a smaller dependence on the US for security, and the already imminent down sizing of the US presence there, isn't there already going to be less spending for the military? seems to me like 10% should be a fairly easy thing to achieve with little impact on US defensive capabilities. My thing is I feel like this is just the start of more huge cuts. Im more concerend with domestic cuts such as closing bases and things such as that.
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Post by MR COWBOY on Feb 2, 2009 17:37:29 GMT -7
A former gen. said the military capabllities haven't recovered from the ' peace dividend ' as a result of the fall of communism nor from clinton's down sizing . The money spent in Iraq will be swung over to Afganistan. When it was announced that Panetta was chosen as CIA director , the analyist noted that as clinton's chief of staff and budget director , he was known as a master budget cutter.The CIA's/ military's 'Black Budget' is what obama is after. Hope he doesn't cut off the CIA's balls the way carter did , we're still trying to catch up from that one.
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