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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 08:06 PM Jun 2014

White House sends $60 billion war-funding request to Congress

Source: Reuters

The White House sent Congress a 2015 war-funding request on Thursday of nearly $60 billion, a drop of $20 billion from the current fiscal year after President Barack Obama decided to withdraw all but 9,800 troops from Afghanistan by Dec. 31.

Obama, in a letter to the House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, asked for $58.6 billion for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas military activity, the smallest Pentagon war-funding request in a decade.

In addition to funding the Afghanistan war, the request also seeks $500 million to support Syria's moderate opposition, $1.5 billion to support stability in the countries bordering Syria that have been flooded with refugees and $140 million for non-operational training in Iraq.

The administration request was about $20 billion less than the current fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30, and $20 billion less than the $79.4 billion place-holder figure in its budget submission to Congress in February.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/26/us-usa-defense-budget-idUSKBN0F12WN20140626

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White House sends $60 billion war-funding request to Congress (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2014 OP
$60 mill here, a trillion there, sooner or late killing people starts running into real money. olddad56 Jun 2014 #1
Stop now! What about us? Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2014 #2
For the cost of the Iraq war.............. PumpkinAle Jun 2014 #3
And done a lot more too......... AngryDem001 Jun 2014 #4
! DeSwiss Jun 2014 #5
Well, fuck... daschess1987 Jun 2014 #6
War profiteers... mother earth Jun 2014 #7
"Non-operational" seems to have been the situataion(s) in microcosm since the beginning. voice_of_freezin Jun 2014 #8
Jesus H. - that's a lot. 840high Jun 2014 #9
Warfare queens. nt valerief Jun 2014 #10
You've got it nailed CountAllVotes Jun 2014 #16
I stole it from Jon Stewart last night. But it fits! nt valerief Jun 2014 #19
Oh fer chrissake! Populist_Prole Jun 2014 #11
while it sounds like a huge number... industry_ Jun 2014 #12
Plus if there is any way the pukes can get by with it madokie Jun 2014 #13
$20 billion ain't all that much unhappycamper Jun 2014 #14
How cute ctsnowman Jun 2014 #15
How will it be paid for? lsewpershad Jun 2014 #17
Any posted over/under that Congress WILL pass? benld74 Jun 2014 #18
Same old story: Brigid Jun 2014 #20

olddad56

(5,732 posts)
1. $60 mill here, a trillion there, sooner or late killing people starts running into real money.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 08:22 PM
Jun 2014

oh, we are suing fake money already, never mind.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
5. !
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 08:58 PM
Jun 2014
- No bankers, lobbyists, nor congressional district defense department armament facility recipients were harmed in the making of this sausage.



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daschess1987

(192 posts)
6. Well, fuck...
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 09:17 PM
Jun 2014

A little austerity here, some corporate tax breaks there, and a laurel and hardy welcome from the people who greet us as liberators, and the whole damned thing will pay for itself. No-bid contracts to rebuild foreign infrastructures (while ours crumbles) will trickle down to the most-deserving, and private prisons will make a killing off the people who protest outside of free-speech zones (excluding health clinics for women where it's open-carry/open-season).

8. "Non-operational" seems to have been the situataion(s) in microcosm since the beginning.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 10:27 PM
Jun 2014

Travesties unequaled in my lifetime. All that death to destabilize further. I try to be upbeat and maybe even funny if I can. Can't do it on this. Peace.

CountAllVotes

(20,854 posts)
16. You've got it nailed
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 10:12 AM
Jun 2014

These are indeed the true "welfare queens".

Might as well buy them a few extra tanks, Hummers, gunz, etc. etc. ad infinitum!


Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
11. Oh fer chrissake!
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 12:34 AM
Jun 2014

Talk about "enttitlements" for the offense budget.

They don't even try to bullshit anymore.

industry_

(33 posts)
12. while it sounds like a huge number...
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 02:24 AM
Jun 2014

if you bothered to actually read the article, you would notice that it's a pretty massive cut in spending - $20 billion, or roughly 25%. still a large amount, yes, but a definitely a step in the right direction.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
13. Plus if there is any way the pukes can get by with it
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 07:30 AM
Jun 2014

they'll be falling all over themselves to deny this request, simply because Obama wants it. Thats how this all works since January 20 of '09

unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
14. $20 billion ain't all that much
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 07:32 AM
Jun 2014

when you take a look at where the money's coming from:



The DoD could lose at least half of their budget and not break a sweat.

Of course we would need to rethink spending $5+ billion for a destroyer, $$16+ billion for a new aircraft carrier, $400 billion for the F-35, etc. etc. etc.

ctsnowman

(1,903 posts)
15. How cute
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 07:40 AM
Jun 2014

now they separate out the "war" part of the MIC so that can pretend to be making massive cuts.

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
20. Same old story:
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 03:07 PM
Jun 2014

A country builds up massive military, which of course, it must use. It gets involved in useless wars, usually under false pretenses. Said wars get expensive; the people get sick of paying for them and losing their young people in them; the expense drives the country's economy into the ground; and the country and its people become impoverished, perhaps permanently. Lather, rinse, repeat. I'd say we're in Stage 4, maybe 5.

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