Republicans in the House have approved a budget that allocates $3.7 billion more than the Pentagon is seeking. This just underlines the fatuousness of GOP claims that they are concerned with deficit spending and that the federal government doesn’t have money. Time:
The House has approved a $643 billion defense-spending bill for 2013 that’s $3.7 billion more than the Obama Administration, and its Pentagon, is seeking. That’s just about the same amount the Congressional Budget Office estimates the House bill’s push for an East Coast missile shield will cost over the next five years.
It’s amazing that a country without money can consider building a missile shield against a threat that doesn’t exist.
True, we’ve already invested billions building such a West Coast system against the threat of a North Korean missile attack, so why shouldn’t we build a mirror system on the other side of the country to protect its denizens from attack by the Iranians?
The House proposal “postures our Armed Forces for potential future threats,” says Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the armed services committee. “Despite a tough fiscal environment, we have provided our Armed Forces with the tools they need to win the war today and deter against the wars of tomorrow.”
Discuss
7 Comments . Leave a comment below.I like the fifty-cent word. Those of us with only a nickel to spend call it a “lie”.
“Disingenuous”. “Lie” accomplishes much the same thing, more efficiently, and at a cost of only pennies per use.
As for Republicans’ claims of deficit spending, that’s only a cudgel they use against Democrats when they have control. The Republicans real issue is that they don’t like “What” the Democrats choose to spend money on. That’s why their alleged efforts to cut the deficit always target the social spending they hate, and not the military and security spending they love.
I wonder how much cash Howard “Buck” McKeon gets from the “defense” industry?
His top five donors are here
Lockheed Martin $63,250
Northrop Grumman $45,500
General Dynamics $36,000
Boeing Co $31,750
General Atomics $29,000
Come on, that’s not even a quarter million dollars. That’s not “corruption”, that’s just … just …
from Greece
great post Bob
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