What’s in store for Pentagon?
Published: 07 April, 2009, 21:58
TAGS: Arms, Military, Politics, USA
U.S. Defense secretary Robert Gates has announced sweeping changes in the Pentagon budget. But Lawrence Korb, a senior military analyst from the Center for American Progress, says Gates has only rebalanced the budget.
The United States government wants to stop building super-expensive F-22 jets, pull the plug on new presidential helicopters, and refocus on the two wars the U.S. is fighting. Lawrence Korb explains what the future holds for the Pentagon.
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Once again Obama sticks his foot in his mouth. With the U.S. economy faltering, he now wants to divert more money from manufacturing and shift it to social welfare handouts. This will simply cause the U.S. economy to fall farther intot the depths of depression, and drag the rest of the world economy with it. Obama may be loved around the world now, but the working class in the U.S. is learning to hate him.
Well then I think there should be an amnisty for Americans that have acctually educated themselves and should be allowed to leave the United States and travel to a country where they would be able to get a job and make a living, and we should produce names of individuals posting them on a public database, that have done so in supporting the propaganda that happened with September 11, wasting valuable funds and harming innocent people....