GOP plan boosts Pentagon, cuts social programs

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Source: Miami Herald

BY ANDREW TAYLOR
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a crippling wave of budget cuts come January.

The reductions, while controversial, are but a fraction of what Republicans called for in the broader, nonbinding budget plan they passed in March. Totaling a little more than $300 billion over a decade, the new cuts are aimed less at tackling $1 trillion-plus government deficits and more at preventing cuts to troop levels and military modernization.

The House Budget Committee meets Monday to officially act on the measure, the product of six separate House panels. It faces a likely floor vote Thursday.

The measure kicks off Congress' return to action after a weeklong recess. The House will also vote on a spending bill funding NASA and the Justice Department and on legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. The Senate, meanwhile, has a test vote slated for Tuesday on a pla



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[goclark]

1. Kick

[think]

2. Tell the GOP that military spending is corporate welfare

because it's the overseas profits & assets of the multi nationals and the MIC that the US protects the most.

The poor go to war and then come back to a GOP that slashes Vet funds and gives tax breaks to the ultra rich.

They are totally disgusting unpatriotic bastards

[Prophet 451]

3. Of course it does

Was anyone expecting something different from them?

[newspeak]

6. well, that's nothing new

little boots was one of the best pulling the "fear" card on his followers. And his "friends" made lots of money playing that fear card. That's numero uno repug MO. Now, I wonder how much money these fear mongering, elderly, child, poor hating congresscritters make pouring money into corporations for the pentagon. They do love to feather their own nest, instead of caring about the well being of the american plebes.

Yep, nothing new to see here.

[bemildred]

4. More guns, less butter. nt

[NeoConsSuck]

16. Bingo! From Ike himself:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969)

[bemildred]

17. Some of us remember.

[ck4829]

5. 'Liberal' media alert, these cuts are far from crippling. The military has even said it needs cuts

It can't keep warehousing things that it's never going to use. It's got to actually defend the country, not protect the GOP's pork.

[newspeak]

8. unfortunately, pre-emptive strikes can't be considered "defending the country"

defending oil interests, yes; defending war profiteers, you've got it; but I don't really see it defending the country. The biggest security risk today, is the well being of the majority of the american people (their livelihoods) and our deteriorating infrastructure.

[ck4829]

9. We need even more cuts

The cuts here don't even go far enough, it's a compromise at least. But to go around in the House and let the Pentagon keep the money but cut the safety net is unimaginable... well, considering the GOP and 'bipartisanship', not really.

[Kind Bud]

7. GOP needs to be exposed to the PEOPLE what they are doing to them

Period.

GOP needs to cease to exist and turned into third parties where nobody cares about each other.

That alone is a major minority that has no relevance to the U.S. needs.

Democrats need to expose the GOP for their hypocrisy.

[DallasNE]

10. Who Is The Enemy

What is the threat and what are the countermeasures?

Normally the military does a good job with "who is the enemy" but not so well with the other two. Even when intelligence alerts us ahead of time as they did on August 6, 2001. They had no countermeasures for securing our flights or box cutters. Nor did they have any countermeasures for Iran hacking and taking over our super secret stealth drone -- like blowing the thing up when it was taken over.

So, it is not weapons that are missing but leadership that can out think and out manuever our known enemies. Money will not fix that problem. That requires a cultural change and I don't see that happening any time soon.

[KamaAina]

11. "a crippling wave of budget cuts'?

Remember, you can't spell 'crap' without AP.

[L0oniX]

12. F*cking sociopaths!

[Crowman1979]

13. Cut military spending to a max of $150 billion.

You could easily do this by sending all troops from overseas back to the states and de-commissioning all nuclear weapons.

[sakabatou]

14. More guns, less bread.

Not surprised.

[DCBob]

18. More death and destruction..

less peace and love.

[Daniel537]

15. Sick, demented motherfuckers.

How any poor American can vote GOP is baffling. Let them eat ICBMs.