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Military Already Underfunded, Thanks to Obama

Defense budget is not large enough to cover president's foreign policy agenda

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Dont lie like that. Current defense budgets are not being cut. Future defense budgets are being cut. So in actuality. The government is still continuing to pay more every year on the defense budget but at a slower rate. WE need to cut the current spending now.

Realist of NJ 1:54PM July 13, 2012

For someone who works at the Heritage Foundation to argue that the government just isn't spending enough money is hilarious.

We need to stop the insanity. Almost all of the fraud, waste and abuse that comes from government spending in America can be found in the military budget. Over the past ten years more than a trillion dollars has gone unaccounted for. Billions in Iraqi reconstruction funds has gone missing. Halliburton, Blackwater and other well connected mega corporations have been handed no bid contracts, and the situation is hardly getting better under Obama.

How much do we need to spend before you feel safe? FY 2012's DoD budget is $671 billion, before you include the CIA's completely secret budget (probably 50-60 billion), or the police state or any of the other hidden military industrial complex costs. In total? 2011 "national security" spending totals about $1.2 Trillion dollars.

The claim that Obama has hollowed out the military is a bizarre one. The budget has increased every single year that he's been in office. We're conducting assassinations against Iranian scientists and generals, we're funding terrorist groups and insurgents around the world, and you argue we need to do MORE?

The terrorists don't hate our freedom. They hate our policies. This massive spending on murder and destruction makes us less safe, not moreso.

Blanye of CT 12:31PM December 14, 2011

shame on him of killing our Country that we all love. So much shame on him. Booo Oboma. Booo. Where are those jobs that u promised me in the First Place.

Jeff of FL 5:23PM November 28, 2011

Mr. Berenson,

Entitlements are for the hard working people of this country. I doubt you will have to wait until you are 70 to retire. And good for you at having made wise choices in your life. However, to tell the American people we need to cut domestic programs in order to continue endless wars overseas is ludicrous. Why should you receive your welfare/warfare payments and not the rest of us? Make no mistake, our bloated military spending amounts to nothing less than welfare to the military-industrial complex. Try putting country first instead of self interest.

Richard Duffin of OH 10:09AM November 21, 2011