Saturday, January 31, 2009

Pentagon Ordered to Cut Budget by 10%

Obama has asked the Pentagon to trim their budget by 55 billion dollars. That is a cut of a bit over 10%. Last years budget was 512 billion dollars. Despite two on going wars and a war on terrorism, there is likely some money that could be cut from the defense budget. It seems hard to believe though that the budget is 10% worthless products. Given the choice between a seemingly useless defense program and most of the pork stuffed in the bailout package (now though to cost over one trillion dollars), I would pick the defense project every time. Right now it seems they are looking at weapons programs to take the brunt of the cuts. Lets just hope that this does not come back to bite us.

More at http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/30/defense-official-obama-calling-defense-budget-cuts and http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/31/a-10-cut-at-the-pentagon.

Update (2/2/2009):
Budget not actually cut but increase (Berman Post: Pentagon Budget to Increase by 8%).

2 comments:

  1. Not nearly enough. We could cut 75% and still have the biggest war budget in the world.

    I have an idea, why don't you and every other conservative pledge 50% of all your earnings to the Pentagon if its bloated budget and wasteful spending is so damn important to you? Then the rest of us could have a tax cut.

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