A community of 30,000 US Transcriptionist serving Medical Transcription Industry

Administration defense strategy ‘dangerously’ underfunded

Posted: Aug 1, 2014

No frivolous spending here. No spending period. Typical. Excerpt: The Obama administration’s four-year defense strategy lacks funding needed for fulfilling global military missions and the U.S. military faces “high risk” in the world unless changes are made, according to a bipartisan report by a congressionally backed panel of defense experts. ;

Congress really does suck. - sm

[ In Reply To ..]
Another excerpt: "Congress should take steps to restore strategic decision-making power denied to both the president and defense secretary by the Budget Control Act."

Congress really sucks.

Dangerous Times - sm

[ In Reply To ..]
Yet another excerpt:
"Under President Obama, U.S. military spending has been cut first by $487 billion over 10 years. That was followed by automatic spending cuts imposed by the Budget Control Act that included another $37 billion cut and additional cuts of $75 billion for 2014 and 2015.

The U.S. defense cuts come amid a major conventional and nuclear buildup by China and Russia, nations that have engaged in increasingly aggressive behavior."

It's not just Congress at fault here.

No one suggested that it was "just Congress at fault here," but - sm

[ In Reply To ..]
Congress writes the laws, and the POTUS can only sign or veto legislation they write and agree to or take executive action. The Republican politicians are a bunch of whiny cry babies whose party is infighting amongst themselves and are afraid to govern lest they inflame the radicals in their party, and then they blame the POTUS for their pitiful inaction.

There are the Tea Party Republicans who want to cut spending by any means necessary. To them, the defense budget is an irrelevant sacred cow. Rand Paul and the Tea Party argue that Democrats and Republicans want too much defense spending. Rand Paul suggested that the sequester really needed to be at least $4 trillion. Then there are the establishment Republicans like John McCain who called the sequester "devastating" and warned that the automatic cuts to the military would hurt America's troops and ability to defend itself.

Half the Republican Party is afraid of upsetting the other half of the party so the idiots continue to take no action on anything. Then they blame Obama in unison for not doing anything while they sue him for writing executive orders for doing too much and for which they later complain the president should write an executive order.

I repeat: Congress really sucks.

Your spin doesn't convince me one bit. - Sorry.

[ In Reply To ..]
Have a nice, whine-free weekend. K?

Spin isn't truth. TRUTH is what was posted. - nm

[ In Reply To ..]

No, I'm quite sure it was spin. - NM

[ In Reply To ..]
LOL

Thanks for NAILING IT!! - nm

[ In Reply To ..]

"No spending period." - sm

[ In Reply To ..]
Quote: "No frivolous spending here. No spending period. Typical."

What is typical here is a "conservative" poster who thinks that the country that spent $640 billion dollars on defense in 2013, more than China, Russia, Saudia Arabia, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and India COMBINED, has "no spending period."

Wow. Perhaps 1 trillion a year will satisfy the "conservatives" if they consider current levels as "no spending."

And who are the ones always voting against - funding of any kind?

[ In Reply To ..]
Not Democrats, Republicans! In fact, Benghazi, it could be argued, was due to serious underfunding of overseas consulates thanks to Republican advocated spending cuts.

Similar Messages:

Nov 11, 2014
President Obama, in that post-shellacking Nov. 5 press conference, said he was “going to begin engaging Congress over a new authorization to use military force (AUMF) against ISIL,” also known as Islamic State, and stop relying on law passed after 9/11 to justify the latest combat. It’s something he said he’d do nearly 18 months ago, but neither Obama nor Congress made a significant move. No hearings were held. But after the news conference — seven weeks after ...

Oct 28, 2014
nm ...

Feb 19, 2010
It takes awhile to make sense of the entrails of the Republican Party, partly because they are just so toxic, but also because it's actually difficult to comprehend that an American political party can so deliberately sabotage its own government and nation. But after observing their behavior and their policy of, "Just Say No" -- sometimes to their own suggestions, one can only surmise that they long ago left the business of governing and have instead agreed to a covert game plan of destruc ...

May 24, 2010
This article is dated 5/24 and I don't see anything here regarding it. I just read it and thought it was a pretty good analysis. I do think campaigning against Bush is a wrong move. Especially for someone who keeps claiming to be a forward thinker. I've never heard this administration take blame for any of the decisions they are making. Just whenever something they do backfires, their solution is to blame Bush. I think Americans are smart enough and ...

Oct 02, 2012
Obama Campaign: “Vote Like Your Lady Parts Depend on It” Lady parts??!! Good grief - talk about disenfranchising the women's vote. Any woman who received this tweet/email must be totally insulted to be reduced to a Lady Parts. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/02/obama-campaign-vote-like-your-lady-parts-depend-on-it/ ...

Jun 23, 2014
Has anyone else noticed the new Democrat strategy of trying to connect with the people in this country not making a million or more a year? Hilary did the "we were broke when we left the White House" story and now Biden is thanking us for taking care of him? Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing ANY politician does or says is not part of a grand scheme. It just really angers me that they pretend to even start to know how it is to live paycheck to paycheck and want us to feel sorry ...

Aug 28, 2014
Same ole, same ole nothingness. ISIL, ISIS, back and forth he went, always with his "range of options" or "array of options", oh, and BTW, who dresses him? His tie didn't go with his brand spankin new suit. ...

Mar 25, 2016
We all know that Obama has an almost pathological aversion to prisoners when it comes to terrorists. You don't get intel from dead bodies. Capture is ALWAYS preferable, especially when it comes to people in high positions, to killing them with drones and special raids. So, they're bragging about killing the ISIS "#2" guy. Don't brag, Obama. We've shown time and time again that these people are merely replaced. If you'd captured him, I' ...

Jun 20, 2017
Operation Overlord, the most successful amphibious invasion in history, was in no small part successful due to the most effective deception and disinformation campaign in history. The key to the Allies completely fooling the Germans as to the real location of the invasion (Normandy) as opposed to where Adolf Hitler thought the troops would land (Calais)—thus meaning all the German generals who wanted their jobs had to think that as well—was the Allies knew what Hitler believed and just playe ...

Feb 23, 2011
I'm just curious how the president and the attorney general can decide which laws to defend and which ones not to. Whether you agree with this law or not, it is a law and to be repealed, it has to go through certain channels, not just being ignored by the WH. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110223/ap_on_re_us/us_gay_marriage ...

Jan 04, 2010
January 01, 2010 In Defense of ProfilingBy Chuck HustmyreLet's get one thing straight right up front: Profiling is an effective tool.We do it with serial killers all the time. Why not terrorists? Because it's discrimination. Therefore, it must be evil. Wrong.According to my World Book dictionary, discriminate means "to see or note a difference; (to) make a distinction."When I choose steak over fish, I discriminate. When I decide to see one movie and not another, I discriminate. We make ...

Feb 01, 2013
John Bolton: The war on terror is not over. Al Qaeda has not been defeated. The struggle is spreading and if we don’t face up to that reality we’re going to have another attack on an American embassy that will be even more successful from the terrorist point of view. … We have no strategy! That’s why I’ve been so concerned that the whole sweep from the Atlantic coast of West Africa, through the Middle East, all the way over to Pakistan is deteriorating from the perspective ...

May 24, 2013
Link ...

Sep 04, 2015
How do you think this 11-year-old will deal with this? The dead are not the only victims. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/04/missouri-11-year-old-fatally-shoots-16-year-old-intruder/ ...

Mar 09, 2012
Bill Maher is a horrible man. Follow that logic. cant wait until Maher responds. ...

Apr 19, 2011
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/rand-paul-defends-tea-party-on-sen-floor-i-dare-you-to-come-to-a-rally/ ...

Jul 25, 2013
Obama: Defense Veto Unless Vets Pay More For Health Care Posted 07/24/2013 06:52 PM ET Email Print License Comment in Share Politics: A veto of the defense authorization bill is threatened unless the president gets his way. He wants health care insurance premiums and co-pays increased for troops and scheduled military pay raises to be reduced. Being used as photo-ops for presidential speeches a ...

Nov 17, 2016
They are planning to fake some documents to make them legal in the U.S. More will be coming out about this soon, but the below has been happening for a few years.Mexico's Defense of Illegal Immigrants Mexico is waging an aggressive diplomatic battle to protect its interests and the interests of its citizens who are working and residing illegally in the United States. While it is appropriate for a foreign government to protect the rights of its citizens abroad, it is not appropriate to enco ...

Dec 31, 2009
Obama promised hope and change, but what Americans have gotten is hoax and chains. Perhaps the Glib One misspoke...or his Teleprompter malfunctioned. Whatever the case, more of your tax dollars (or dollars that will be borrowed from China, actually, because your tax dollars are GONE) are going to this sort of thing, tacked onto the Defense funding bill. This nefarious practice is done so that Republicans are forced to vote for the pork or vote against funding the military: $5 milli ...

May 31, 2012
. ...

Nov 27, 2014
Can't say I blame them for turning down the position. Who would want to be associated with this administration? ...

Apr 13, 2015
Hillary Clinton weighed in on her 1975 legal defense of an accused child rapist on Saturday, her first comments on the case since it came under scrutiny following a Washington Free Beacon report last month. Clinton spoke in clinical, legal terms while explaining her defense of the rapist, who Clinton helped to avoid a lengthy prison term by relying on a technicality relating to the chain of evidence of his blood-soaked underwear, as well as arguing at the time that the 12-year-old victim may ha ...

Jun 23, 2017
A Virginia resident entrusted with top secret information by the U.S. government has been charged with espionage after he travelled to China to pass classified information to Beijing's security services, according to the Justice Department. Kevin Mallory, a 60-year-old Virginia resident, was arrested Thursday morning on charges he transmitted top secret and secret classified documents to an agent of China's security services, according to the DOJ. Justice Department attorney ...

Sep 15, 2012
Isn't that what we've been trying to tell you ? Read it and weep. ...

Nov 10, 2015
Now we can expect more hissy fits from Ole Sissy Pants. ...

Nov 16, 2015
on issues in the Middle East, said on Fox News when asked why can't we take out ISIS... "Walid, why can't we take them out?" "Actually we can and actually we should, but the president has a different strategy. He's getting a lot of pressure by the Iranians. Otherwise he should have long time ago allied himself, partnered with Arab moderate forces such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, UAE, they are fighting terrorism very much and very well in Yemen, in Sinai, in Libya, else ...

Oct 09, 2012
Defense: $2 trillion divides Obama and Romney CNN Money: "The United States is by far the biggest spender on defense -- accounting for 41% of worldwide military expenditures in 2011, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Indeed, last year Americans spent more than all the other countries in the top 10 list combined, including five times more than China, the No. 2 spender. U.S. spends more on defense than any other country, and the defense budget would b ...

Sep 19, 2013
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/18/former-defense-secretaries-gates-panetta-fault-oba/ ...

Apr 24, 2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/24/bill-maher-to-tea-baggers_n_550430.html ...

Dec 19, 2011
I am woefully uninformed, but a friend is saying it gives the military unlimited power over US citizens. Based on what I do understand, that sounds like wild paranoia to me. Other thoughts? ...