It’s Raining Panties! The Obama Military Budget
by Jim Washburn
Remember just a short while ago when conservatives controlled all three branches of the federal government, yet still wailed they were beset on all sides by liberal outrages that were destroying our nation? By their measure, it's amazing there's any nation left to destroy, yet that's just what Obama-and the majority that elected him president-is doing now.
Just ask Republican Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, who recently had this to say while on a trip to Afghanistan:
President Obama is disarming America. Never before has a president so ravaged the military at a time of war. Here in Afghanistan, our brave troops continue to fight while their President guts our military. Our sons and daughters are risking their lives fighting an enemy whose sole purpose is the destruction of our country and our way of life, while their President disarms America. And all this to support his welfare state.
The brunt of this decision will be felt by our men and women in uniform right here in Afghanistan. At a time when the Obama administration has put forth a budget to disarm America, Congress cannot, and must not simply go along. Congressman Tom Cole and I will work with the House and Senate Armed Services Committees to stop these cuts.
Just how is Obama "gutting" and "ravaging" the military? By increasing its budget this year to $534 billion, a 4% hike over Bush's record budget of last year. For a bit of perspective, the US, with only 5% of the world's population, has in recent years spent approximately as much for its military as the rest of the world combined does. That includes all our allies and enemies, and I should point out our enemies these days operate out of carports and ponga boats.
While increasing the overall military budget, Obama and that other great traitor, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, have proposed making cuts to some of our bloated, over-budget weapons programs. The Pentagon itself has questioned the need for several of these programs, Cold War leftovers that politicians kept alive because they bring pork to their districts. Most would mean nothing to our troops in the field even if they were ever deployed.
The Obama budget has increases for technology that does matter, such as drone aircraft, and for shoring up the shameful medical care that many wounded service folks received under Bush. Obama's instituted programs to make sure those with head trauma or PTSD get the care they need, and to address the booming problem of veteran homelessness. He's already abolished the "stop-gap" process under which Bush had kept troops in the field indefinitely beyond their set period of service. Maybe that's one reason why the troops he's "disarming" flocked to hug Obama on his recent trip to Iraq.
If Inhofe was so concerned about the troops, maybe he should have done his due diligence as a Senator to keep them out of the utterly unnecessary war in Iraq. Even if Iraq had posed a threat, which it didn't, our best military analysts said we could have contained it indefinitely, so, again, if Inhofe gave a damn about the troops, he might have made sure Bush equipped them with the body armor and plated vehicles they needed before sending them into harm's way. Maybe he should have raised his voice when his president cut taxes for the rich while our poorest went to war for us.
Inhofe's a marvel in contradictions. He rails against Obama's lack of business experience while his own chief claim to same was that he ran the Quaker Life Insurance Company into the ground. He calls climate change a hoax, and likens the environmental movement to the Third Reich and the EPA to the Gestapo. The Weather Channel? He hasn't called them Storm Troopers yet, but he has claimed they side with global warming believers (aka the sane world) to boost ratings. All while the state he represents keeps getting kicked in the shins by the results of climate change. Just in the past week, 170 homes were just destroyed in his state by record wind-whipped fires.
The Obama military budget is $21 billion higher than Bush's. Fully dressed, $21 billion looks like $21,000,000,000. I've argued for years that we should cut our military in half and then cut from there. We don't have any big enemies, and if one of the old ones, like China, should again grow belligerent, they wouldn't need a military to destroy us; they could topple us just by calling in the debt we owe them (China's the biggest holder of our national debt), in part from building up our military to such crazy levels.
What could we do at home with just this year's increase in our budget? Well, Victoria's Secret is having a Panty sale: 3 for $30, and we're talking some of their sexiest styles. So you could buy 2.1 billion panties, approximately 7 pairs of panties for every man, woman and child in the United States. We could make it literally rain panties.
What, you don't need panties? Well, you don't need an F-22 fighter jet either, and you can at least use panties to polish your gun collection.
Perhaps more usefully, the $21 billion could pay in full for some 105,000 houses in the US. Again, that's just from the amount of money that our defense budget is INCREASING in socialist, troop-hating, welfare state-loving Obama's budget.
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