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Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 06:54 PM Jun 2014

Barack Obama seeks $65 billion in war funds

President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday for more than $65 billion to support the war in Afghanistan and global security programs, but key members of Congress say they won’t rubber-stamp the request and are frustrated at having been kept out of its preparations.

The president sent lawmakers a series of budget amendments requesting $58.6 billion for the Pentagon — well short of a nearly $80 billion “placeholder” submitted with its regular budget earlier this year — and $7.3 billion for the State Department.

That total includes new requests to support European security over the short term and a new counter-terrorism fund that Obama says is necessary to help combat terrorists across the Middle East and Africa.

Part of the new fund would go toward directly supporting rebel groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, handing Congress the political hot potato of determining whether to support arming and training the rebels.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/barack-obama-afghanistan-war-108364.html?hp=l5

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Barack Obama seeks $65 billion in war funds (Original Post) Jesus Malverde Jun 2014 OP
Deficit hawks ATTACK! gratuitous Jun 2014 #1
America's most sacred of Sacred Cows demands feeding. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2014 #2
We don't have money for anything but death and destruction. Jesus Malverde Jun 2014 #3
Children in the United States go to bed hungry at night Aerows Jun 2014 #4
Austerity for America Octafish Jun 2014 #5
Nothing for Detroit. Jesus Malverde Jun 2014 #7
The City was the Arsenal of Democracy during World War II. Octafish Jun 2014 #9
No money to fix our crumbling infrastructure, but plenty of money for the war machine! Initech Jun 2014 #6
To what end? SomethingFishy Jun 2014 #8
E M P I R E RobertEarl Jun 2014 #10
Nobel Peace Prize, my ass. woo me with science Jun 2014 #11
kick woo me with science Jun 2014 #12
Yea ...fuck that. Reign in the Patriot Act and the NSA and unnecessary bases. L0oniX Jun 2014 #13
I'm sorry, Blue_In_AK Jun 2014 #14

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. Deficit hawks ATTACK!
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 07:12 PM
Jun 2014

Or, turn into deficit turtles because the money's for blowing up women, kids and houses. We can't feed or house our own citizens, but there's always lots of money for military adventurism, even if it isn't paid for. Will this time turn out any different? Will Republican animosity toward all things Obama trump Republican affinity for all things military?

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
4. Children in the United States go to bed hungry at night
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 07:23 PM
Jun 2014

so that children in other countries grow up without parents or don't grow up at all.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
9. The City was the Arsenal of Democracy during World War II.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 07:43 PM
Jun 2014

Its union jobs built the Middle Class.

Its schools produced generations of Scholars and Workers.

And now, thanks to NAFTA and a half century of automation, computerization and robotics; Detroit's workforce is forced to compete with $1 a day labor.

Yaay Team.

Initech

(99,915 posts)
6. No money to fix our crumbling infrastructure, but plenty of money for the war machine!
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 07:28 PM
Jun 2014

Seriously, fuck the military industrial complex.

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
8. To what end?
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 07:37 PM
Jun 2014

What is the end game here? A safer planet? We can't even tell who the "good guys" are. And even if we can it's not usually long before they become the "bad guys".

This is insanity. The MIC is out of control, the media is complacent(at best) and we keep doing the same thing over and over.,,.

It doesn't take a strong nation to go to war. It takes a strong nation not to.

 

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)
13. Yea ...fuck that. Reign in the Patriot Act and the NSA and unnecessary bases.
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 10:35 PM
Jun 2014

Spend the money ...our money ...on us for some real change.

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