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MH1

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10. Just curious, why Obama?

Reply to Make7 (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 4, 2014, 01:35 PM

Jul 2014

Isn't this a program that's over a decade old?

And think of the jobs in all those congressional districts. Hell, Congress won't even stop funding crap the Pentagon ASKS them to discontinue. (There are news articles about examples of this problem from time to time).

Obama has many failings but I'm not sure this one can be laid on him.

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