Fox Anchor: Government Slashing The Defense Budget

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April 10, 2009

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News & Politics

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• budget
• defense
• cut
• fox

[nickybabs]

Dude you can have Palin.  The rest of us will stick with Obama.

btw, the purpose of this video is to expose a blatant lie told by a "news anchor". The defense budget has actually increased.

[RealCaptainAmerica]

LIE! Obama's plan includes increasing defense spending by 4%.

Friends don't let friends watch Fox News.

[Ujikaweapon1]

North Korea? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[incrowdcynic]

Here here. Also, I'll say that generally the focus has been, with regard to eliminating specific classes of hardware designed for specific roles, to upgrade less expensive classes to fulfill the roles that more heftily outfitted and substantially more expensive ones would carry. Any concerns of lost functionality or role-capability has likely been considered.

[TedinLasVegas]

Well, don't get me wrong, and here's where I'll differ from some of the Republicans complaining about this move of Obama's; we do need to refocus our military to the current miltary threats.

I think he's wrong some but who can be right ALL the time; he's just the president, not God.

[Spacemonkey2084]

It's been years since I payed close attention to the specialties of the various military hardware out there so I won't pretend to have an informed opinion. You may very well be right.

My support is for the stated objective of Gate's shifting for funding rather than it's technical details. I have to hope that such experts are making informed decisions.

[TedinLasVegas]

Umm, almost agree with you; problem is, the destroyer being cut, the Zumalt class, is designed primarily for Naval Gunfire Support for Marines on shore and littoral (coastal water) combat.

I say we need fewer Burke-class and more Zumalt class.

[Spacemonkey2084]

They're cutting the production of destroyers for open ocean combat in order to upgrade existing Aegis ships for ballistic missile defense. Oh, and increasing funding for building drones to increase field intelligence.

The missile defense issue is complex because of politics with Russia. Keeping countries like Russia not in direct disagreement with us is more likely to prevent Korea from being able to hit the US with their missiles. Korea buying the tech is more likely than making it.

[pa6xylly]

i wish more people understood this.

well said.

[Relugus]

America has a bigger defence budget than all the other countries in the world combined. That is ridiculous and utterly deranged.

The Pentagon is the most wasteful government department on this planet.

Want to know why your taxes are so high? Its because the Pentagon is grabbing more and more taxpayers money and nobody is saying "No".

Conservatives who rail against social programs are silent about the Pentagon "losing" $3 trillion.

Eisenhower urged the US people not to allow this excess.

[VigilantnotMilitant]

The truth is we need the Republicans. We need them to be intelligent, pragmatic, sensible, self-critical, rational. It was a Republican who coined MIC and his granddaughter, Susan, voted for Obama. We need intelligent Republicans to tell the crazy, foaming tea party masses to shut up and tell defense contractors that it's time to put "country first." We miss you-- rational, self-critical Republicans. We eagerly await your return.

[TedinLasVegas]

Where havve you been the last 10 years?

12 of the last 12 NMD tests have been "skin-on-skin" kills!!!

Works fine, lasts a long time!