How Obama Shrank The US Military

[Viktor]

How Obama Shrank the Military

In The Wall Street Journal, Mark Moyar writes about how President Obama shrank the military.

www.wsj.com

That asshole gave billions to failing corporations and passed Obamacare to make sure his cronies in the insurance industry had a stranglehold on American taxpayers, yet cut our military strength massively.

 

[pknopp]

If he shrank the military it was by getting them killed in his stupid wars.

 

[EMH]

Worst traitors in US history


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LBJ
Obama
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George tenet
Chris Wray
Mike mukasey
Dick Cheney

 

[Care4all]

How Obama Shrank the Military

In The Wall Street Journal, Mark Moyar writes about how President Obama shrank the military.

www.wsj.com

That asshole gave billions to failing corporations and passed Obamacare to make sure his cronies in the insurance industry had a stranglehold on American taxpayers, yet cut our military strength massively.

Well let's see.... why would we not shrink our military spending ....that we more than doubled under GW Bush, when our military was no longer fighting the Iraq War???

 

[pknopp]

Well let's see.... why would we not shrink our military spending ....that we more than doubled under GW Bush, when our military was no longer fighting the Iraq War???

We are still involved in Iraq.

Still at War: The United States in Iraq.

 

[candycorn]

And you guys claim we talk about Trump too much?

 

[skews13]

Worst traitors in US history


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LBJ
Obama
Biden
George tenet
Chris Wray
Mike mukasey
Dick Cheney

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Trump
Nixon
Flynn
The 7 GOP Senators that spent July 4th in Moscow

 

[Care4all]

We are still involved in Iraq.

Still at War: The United States in Iraq.

Yes, we are! With 2500 troops!

But compared to 170,000 military there plus mercenaries, at our peak, it is minimal, and reason to cut military spending...imho.

 

[skews13]

How Obama Shrank the Military

In The Wall Street Journal, Mark Moyar writes about how President Obama shrank the military.

www.wsj.com

That asshole gave billions to failing corporations and passed Obamacare to make sure his cronies in the insurance industry had a stranglehold on American taxpayers, yet cut our military strength massively.

Obama didn't shrink anything. Only Congress can appropriate Pentagon spending, and the would have been under Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell.

Thread fail.

 

[EMH]

Obama didn't shrink anything. Only Congress can appropriate Pentagon spending, and the would have been under Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell.

Thread fail.

While you are a partisan hack with no patriotism to America, you are correct

2 911 w Zionist "Biden republicans" did it with love from the network which hyped both - fox

 

[Mushroom]

Only Congress can appropriate Pentagon spending

I guess you do not remember what the sequester was like.

 

[Mushroom]

How Obama Shrank the Military

In The Wall Street Journal, Mark Moyar writes about how President Obama shrank the military.

www.wsj.com

That asshole gave billions to failing corporations and passed Obamacare to make sure his cronies in the insurance industry had a stranglehold on American taxpayers, yet cut our military strength massively.

Well, since the article is hidden behind a paywall, it is largely meaningless.

However, the how was very simple. Mostly a RIF via RCP.

 

[Synthaholic]

We should shrink the military. Especially their budget.

 

[Dayton3]

Well let's see.... why would we not shrink our military spending ....that we more than doubled under GW Bush, when our military was no longer fighting the Iraq War???

It did not double in terms of weapons procurement. Military spending mainly increased du to operations cosst

 

[Viktor]

It did not double in terms of weapons procurement. Military spending mainly increased du to operations cosst

Electing that asshole President was a huge mistake. He is the most anti american President we ever had. He not only depleted our economy. He went around the world badmouthing this country and apologizing for it. I have never seen a more selfish man.

 

[Mushroom]

It did not double in terms of weapons procurement. Military spending mainly increased du to operations cosst

Procurement is actually a small part of the budget. By far, the majority of the budget (around 75%) is in pay, benefits, medical, housing, and training.

And most forget that when we are training in the field, we use generators. We saw our training decrease to almost nothing in 2009, especially when the price of gas skyrocketed. A PATRIOT unit in the field will typically go through well over 1,000 gallons of diesel in a day, as it required multiple generators to function (especially the massive 150 KW power plant that powers the RADAR and command van.

Prior to President Obama taking office, we went to the field for 1-2 weeks on average 4-6 times a year. But when we did our pre-deployment training, we spent it at a set of buildings, there was no money to do real training. And when we returned, all of our training was in those same buildings. Once again, lack of funds because there was no budget and we were under sequestration. We were often even doing training with the equipment of another unit (or they would do it with ours) because a lot of our stuff just did not work.

And the thing is, things are still like that to this day. And a lot of the military gets hampered by things like high gas prices, because they have to factor that into their budget themselves. They do not just "get it for free", and everything in a military unit has to come from their own budget. And training is expensive, but it has to be done.