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 Obama Signs Weapons Spending Reform BillPosted on May 22, 2009
President Obama signed a weapons acquisition bill on Friday that aims to curb massive cost overruns in defense programs while increasing oversight and stimulating competition for contracts. The bill was passed unanimously by both the House and Senate earlier this week.
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By richard east, May 24 at 1:03 pm #
rockinrobin, you had me going until the Rush Limbaugh reference.
Report thisBy rockinrobin, May 23 at 11:38 am #
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lies & more lies; states meanwhile have passed laws such as they can go into anyones house (home invasion) under the “disguise” of “swine flu” and remove the folks there; another state can stop you & haul you away even if you do not “fail” the drunk driving test; Americans you best be ready & prepared! and “everyone” will stay by doing nothing; it is a CRIMINALLY RUN GOVERNMENT FOLKS! target & harm for PERSONAL GAIN & PROFIT; the “war on drugs” is a smoke screen; all the top dealers have had to do for decades is pay money “into the fund” of the police and hospitals; Rockerfeller’s idea; and if you go to http://www.care2.com you can sign petitions for them to stop putting chemicals into the milk, cheese & everything else. You can PETITION these “criminals” to STOP targeting & harming the children of this nation; do a search on monsanto & rumsfeld, bush & clinton & canola oil; everything in THIS NATION is full of chemicals to harm you for you to pay the same folks doing it again to “cure” you; THIS is called “democracy”; as Rush L stated since the AGENDA of BOTH PARTIES is target & harm for personal profit & gain; why have 2 parties? Answer: the people must have a CHOICE.
Report thisBy dihey, May 23 at 10:01 am #
We need a child to walk through the streets of Washington D.C. and yell out aloud: “this emperor has no clothes”.
President Obama is not a man of peace. He is an aggressive son of a bitch.
Report thisBy Paul_GA, May 23 at 9:41 am #
If anything wrecks this country’s economy beyond repair, it’ll be the inability or the unwillingness of those people in Mordor-on-the-Potomac to cut back on the Empire.
Report thisBy jackpine savage, May 23 at 8:11 am #
Raise the defense budget, ask for nearly a hundred billion off-budget to fight the wars of choice, and then throw a bone and talk about saving “tens of billions”...great, he’s a real reformer.
It reminds me of Aspin/Clinton in the nineties (with nary an enemy in sight) saying that it just wouldn’t be possible to cut more than ten billion from the 300 billion defense budget.
Report thisBy hippie4ever, May 22 at 6:19 pm #
Agreed, ardee. Obama could also eliminate the (lost) War on Drugs and other wars against the American people. Cost savings there and future votes as well. And there’s many military facilities overseas: I’d like to know how many and where but that’s “top secret.” You betcha! We the People, after all, only pay the bills.
Report thisBy ardee, May 22 at 5:08 pm #
No room for the elimination of bloat in our defense budget, you betcha!
If our president wishes to cut defense spending he can stop sending more troops to Afghanistan, pull those remaining in Iraq out of Iraq, seek peaceful means to resolve problems, cut the military and its budget to only gigantic or enormous amounts…..
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