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Military Spending ‘Not Sustainable’

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Posted on Nov 10, 2008
U.S. Navy / Petty Officer 3rd Class Josue L. Escobosa

The Defense Business Board, an official oversight body appointed by the secretary of defense, has warned the president-elect that the Pentagon’s bloated budget ($512 billion this year, not including war costs) is “not sustainable.” An unprecedented spending spree since 9/11 has run head-on into a financial meltdown, and Barack Obama is now stuck in the middle.


Boston Globe via The Page:

A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a series of bluntly worded briefings, is warning President-elect Barack Obama that the Defense Department’s current budget is “not sustainable,” and he must scale back or eliminate some of the military’s most prized weapons programs.

The briefings were prepared by the Defense Business Board, an internal management oversight body. It contends that the nation’s recent financial crisis makes it imperative that the Pentagon and Congress slash some of the nation’s most costly and troubled weapons to ensure they can finance the military’s most pressing priorities.

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By AKATLA, November 10, 2008 at 11:57 pm Link to this comment
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We need to stop thinking we can spend and stimulate our way out of this mess… cut back spending. The fatted, sacred cow which is the MIC needs to be gutted, deprive the generals the un-necessary toys and shut down some of the military bases in far-off lands where we have no business being. Our military budget is many times the budget of the rest of the world COMBINED, including China and Russia. We still occupy countries we defeated 50 years ago and maintain bases on every speck of land around the globe. It is not isolationist policy I advocate, I support the total defense of our nation and elimination of our enemies. I ask only a reasonable pruning and allocation of resources based on real defense needs. The savings would be immediate and the resources (including the people) better used here at home. Of course, we know this will never happen. Even thinking this is heresy and un-American. They would much rather watch our parents and grandparents suffer and die trying to survive on the scaled-back social programs they cut, rather than cut back on the bloated military.

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By The Beej, November 10, 2008 at 5:31 pm Link to this comment
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Dear George,
Thank you so much.
With Love,
The American Public

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