The obamunist strikes again. - From: Travis Subject: RED ALERT: A trillion in pork, but Pentagon must cut 11%! Date: Friday, January 30, 2009
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/01/red-alert-trillion-on-pork-but-pentagon.html Friday, January 30, 2009 RED ALERT: A trillion in pork, but Pentagon must cut 11%!<http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/01/red-alert-trillion-on-pork-but-pentagon.html> *BREAKING 7:41PM ET*: *Fox News Television reports that Barack Obama has issued a demand that the Pentagon reduce its budget by more than 10%*. The dollar figure is $55 billion. President Obama wants to spend a trillion dollars on welfare, condoms, international STD prevention and handouts for illegal immigrants... but negative funding for the *very mission his Presidential Oath required*. Americans will die, needlessly, if this man gets his way. Overreach? He's already pulled his arm out of its socket. Here *are the phone numbers for every U.S. Senator<http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm> *. *Call now* and demand -- with as much polite-itude as you can muster -- that they speak out against both the Porkulus package and this outrageous attempt to weaken America. *Update*: Connie B. noted that the requested budget cut is just "a start"! *Update II*: First mainstream media outlet to report appears to be InsideDefense (subscription)<http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-0&fp=49831eb0070dbe74&ei=OKaDSYW-HtbemQexvvT8CA&url=http%3A//defense.iwpnewsstand.com/showdoc.asp%3Fdocid%3D1302009_jan30d&cid=0&sig2=833leQJgZQ2iesr_Q3mu8A&usg=AFQjCNH-u0pdiNqKO0jGHNYMIsoxwW3ivA>(hat tip: Ace <http://minx.cc/?post=282072>): "'Substantial' Cut to FY-10 Budget Plan; Pentagon to Appeal" *Update III*: Tommy emails: "We're all dead men walking." *Update IV*: Iran. Nukes. Operation Starfish<http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2007/12/operation-starfish.html> . *Update V*: Via Reuters, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) says that long-range U.S. antiballistic missile system should be scaled down as part of a belt-tightening<http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN3038901020090130> . *Update VI*: Inside Defense: "[T]he Obama administration has directed Pentagon officials to pare back its original FY-10 topline proposal<http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/2-0&fp=49831eb0070dbe74&ei=Q7GDScOmJsGPmAemiYmLCQ&url=http%3A//defense.iwpnewsstand.com/showdoc.asp%3Fdocid%3D1302009_jan30e&cid=1299103826&sig2=rznWkNOfZOvNKG_ORAfLZg&usg=AFQjCNHkffnK2FE0Mu5_m97ZoCb03xdY2g> ." -- *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
